Donald Trump’s White House event disintegrated into a shouting match between the president and reporters when the president’s tweets telling unnamed progressive congresswomen to “go back” to where they came from were brought up
Rep. Pete Olson also
in Baltimore, adding: “They all didn’t come from foreign countries, so you’d have to presume that it was not a country.” Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro — the latest of several 2020 Democratic White House contenders to weigh in on the president's tweetstorm — called the posts "disgusting" and "racist" on Monday, and claimed that many Republican officials are privately offended by Trump's messages.
Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence and the White House's former legislative director, defended Trump's rhetoric Monday morning on the Fox Business Network.
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