……… despite his previous ‘go back’ tweet
President Trump on July 18 said he disagreed with his rally goers who aimed chants of “send her back” at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during a July 17 rally.
President Trump said Thursday that he disagreed with a chant at his campaign rally of “Send her back!” directed at a Somali-born lawmaker that echoed recent comments he has made about her and three other minority congresswomen.
“I wasn’t happy with the message they gave last night,” Trump said of the crowd at his rally in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday night. “I was not happy when I heard that chant.”
Pressed by a reporter why he did not try to stop the chant directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Trump said he thought he had done so by starting to speak again “very quickly.”
“I started very quickly, and maybe you know that,” he said.
In fact, the president did not start speaking immediately but rather remained silent for about 13 seconds as the chants were heard. The chants echoed recent comments made by Trump, including in a tweet Sunday in which he suggested Omar and the three other congresswomen “go back” to their ancestral countries.
Asked what he thought prompted the chant, Trump told reporters that they should go to North Carolina and ask the people there.
Upon returning to the White House on Wednesday, Trump tweeted about the energy at the rally, writing, “What a crowd, and what great people.”
His comments Thursday came during an event in the Oval Office with members of U.S. team in the Special Olympics.
Congressional Republicans sought Thursday to walk a fine line between condemning the chant while continuing to stand by Trump’s efforts to turn the four lawmakers into the face of the Democratic Party.
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), chairman of the campaign committee for House Republicans, told reporters that there was “no place for that kind of talk. But Emmer also defended Trump for his weekend tweets that suggested Omar and the three other minority lawmakers should “go back” to their ancestral countries. Emmer said “there’s not a racist bone in Trump’s body” and “what he was trying to say, he said wrong.”
And Emmer echoed Trump’s attempts to portray the four freshman lawmakers — known on Capitol Hill as “the Squad” — as representative of the Democratic Party heading into next year’s elections.
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President Trump on July 18 said he disagreed with his rally goers who aimed chants of “send her back” at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during a July 17 rally.
President Trump said Thursday that he disagreed with a chant at his campaign rally of “Send her back!” directed at a Somali-born lawmaker that echoed recent comments he has made about her and three other minority congresswomen.
“I wasn’t happy with the message they gave last night,” Trump said of the crowd at his rally in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday night. “I was not happy when I heard that chant.”
Pressed by a reporter why he did not try to stop the chant directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Trump said he thought he had done so by starting to speak again “very quickly.”
“I started very quickly, and maybe you know that,” he said.
In fact, the president did not start speaking immediately but rather remained silent for about 13 seconds as the chants were heard. The chants echoed recent comments made by Trump, including in a tweet Sunday in which he suggested Omar and the three other congresswomen “go back” to their ancestral countries.
Asked what he thought prompted the chant, Trump told reporters that they should go to North Carolina and ask the people there.
Upon returning to the White House on Wednesday, Trump tweeted about the energy at the rally, writing, “What a crowd, and what great people.”
His comments Thursday came during an event in the Oval Office with members of U.S. team in the Special Olympics.
Congressional Republicans sought Thursday to walk a fine line between condemning the chant while continuing to stand by Trump’s efforts to turn the four lawmakers into the face of the Democratic Party.
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), chairman of the campaign committee for House Republicans, told reporters that there was “no place for that kind of talk. But Emmer also defended Trump for his weekend tweets that suggested Omar and the three other minority lawmakers should “go back” to their ancestral countries. Emmer said “there’s not a racist bone in Trump’s body” and “what he was trying to say, he said wrong.”
And Emmer echoed Trump’s attempts to portray the four freshman lawmakers — known on Capitol Hill as “the Squad” — as representative of the Democratic Party heading into next year’s elections.
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He tried to use this to cover up for the other scandal but he’s making everything worse
