Eyeing 2020 vote, Trump doubles down on xenophobic tweets
File copy: US President Donald Trump gestures as he answers questions in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC on Friday. AFP photo
Asked by a reporter whether he was concerned that many people saw his comments as racist, Trump said: “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me.” Senator Tim Scott, a black Republican from South Carolina, criticized Trump for using “unacceptable personal attacks and racially offensive language” while Republican Representative Mike Turner of Ohio said the remarks were “racist and he should apologize.”Trump’s comments appear to be aimed at galvanizing his mostly white electoral base ahead of the 2020 presidential vote — while also stoking divisions among his political opponents.
In his initial Twitter attack on Sunday, Trump — who before becoming president pushed the racist “birther” conspiracy theory that Obama was not born on US soil — said the congresswomen came from corrupt, poorly managed countries to which they should return. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Pressley were all born in the United States while Omar came to the United States from war-torn Somalia when she was a child.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, has had a tenuous relationship with the four left-leaning first-term congresswomen but she jumped to their defense.
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