Trump doubles down on attacks denounced as racist that appeared targeted at freshman Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley
President Donald Trump on Sunday said progressive congresswomen should"go back" and try to fix the"crime infested places" they"originally came from" before telling the U.S. government how to handle its problems. Then, after his comments were denounced as racist, he doubled down.
Although he did not mention anyone by name in his tweets, the president appeared to be referring to a group of progressive congresswomen, none of whom are white, who have generated headlines and whose influence was recently downplayed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Tlaib, a Palestinian American, was born in Michigan; Omar, a Somali refugee, moved to the United States when she was 12 and is a naturalized U.S. citizen; Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Latin-American descent, was born in New York; and Pressley, who is African American, was born in Cincinnati.to Trump on Twitter Sunday afternoon, saying"the country I 'come from,' & the country we all swear to, is the United States.
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