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Democrats in Congress Attacked by Trump Deem His Comments Racist

Steve Herman

   Updated: July 15, 2019, 7:47 p.m.

   WHITE HOUSE -- Four Democratic Party members of the U.S. Congress have
   appeared together before reporters in a collective and blistering show
   of force to rebut President Donald Trump's social media and verbal
   volleys against them.

   "He's launching a blatantly racist attack on four duly elected members
   of the United States House of Representatives, all of whom are women of
   color," said Ilhan Omar, a Somalia-born Democrat from the state of
   Minnesota and a naturalized U.S. citizen. "This is the agenda of white
   nationalists."

   Trump set off a firestorm of controversy Sunday by tweeting that the
   lawmakers should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime
   infested places from which they came," even though three of the four
   were born in the United States. The first tweets came shortly after a
   segment about the minority congresswomen on the Fox News Channel.

     So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who
     originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and
     total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the
     world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now
     loudly......
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]July 14, 2019

     ....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can't leave
     fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to
     quickly work out free travel arrangements!
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [2]July 14, 2019

   Appearing with Omar at the Monday evening news conference were
   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a native New Yorker; Massachusetts Rep. Ayana
   Pressley, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio; and Michigan Representative
   Rashid Tlaib, a native of Detroit in that state.

   Two of them, Omar and Tlaib, who are the first two Muslim women to
   serve in Congress, explicitly called for Trump's impeachment.

   "I urge House leadership, many of my colleagues, to take action to
   impeach this lawless president today," said Tlaib.

   "He does not know how to defend his policies," Ocasio-Cortez told
   reporters. "So, what he does is attack us personally. And that is what
   this is all about."

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381394234941448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   2. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381396994723841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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