BFF-36 Minority congresswomen should ‘apologize to America’: Trump

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Minority congresswomen should ‘apologize to America’: Trump

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – US President Donald Trump renewed
attacks Sunday on four Democratic congresswomen he launched xenophobic tweets
against last week, demanding they apologize “for the horrible (hateful)
things they have said.”

“I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our
Country,” Trump tweeted of ethnic-minority first-term Democrats Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.

“They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful)
things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, but are weak &
insecure people who can never destroy our great Nation!” the president
tweeted.

The comments come a week after Trump sparked a firestorm of outrage when
he attacked the left-leaning lawmakers with a series of tweets, saying they
should “go back” to their countries of origin.

The group — three of whom were born in the United States — are of
Hispanic, Arab, Somali and African-American descent.

In a rare move, Trump was rebuked by the Democratic-controlled House of
Representatives on Tuesday for “racist comments” against the women, who are
known as the “Squad.”

The following day chants of “Send her back!” broke out at the president’s
“Make America Great Again” rally in Greenville, North Carolina, when he again
attacked the women.

To the delight of his thousands of supporters, Trump described Omar and
the other Democrats as “left-wing ideologues (who) see our nation as a force
of evil.”

– Speech paused for chants –

Trump later said there was “great energy” at the rally but claimed he was
not pleased by the taunts.

“I was not happy when I heard that chant,” he said. “I didn’t like that
they did it, and I started speaking quickly” to move on with his speech.

Television footage showed, however, that Trump let the chant continue for
more than 13 seconds, only resuming speaking as they died down.

The president demonstrated in Greenville that without a Democratic
presidential candidate to focus on yet, he plans to make inflammatory attacks
on the Squad a centerpiece of his 2020 re-election strategy.

Several of the Democratic presidential hopefuls who plan to run against
him and a few of the Republicans have urged Trump to tone down the rhetoric.

But the president has made it clear — despite the risk of inflaming
racial tensions and widening the partisan divide — that he believes he has
latched on to a winning strategy.

Trump tapped into grievances among white blue-collar and rural Americans
to eke out a narrow victory in 2016, winning 57 percent of white voters while
his rival Hillary Clinton won 37 percent.

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