As news outlets flashed alerts about evidence of President Trump's involvement in the hush-money scheme to quiet Stormy Daniels, the president revisited another furor he had set into motion days earlier.
Trump employs familiar tactic in attacks on 'Squad': Distract and shift spotlight using racial rhetoricWASHINGTON – Less than two hours after a trove of documents shed new light Thursday on the effort to pay off a former porn star who alleged an affair with President Donald Trump, White House aides hastily called reporters into the Oval Office.
The playbook that Trump has returned to time and again not only puts him in the spotlight, but also fires up supporters who backed him in part as a rejection of what they view as a culture of political correctness run amok. The Squad includes Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. All four are outspoken progressives and women of color. All four are U.S. citizens, and three were born in the United States.
From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their "broken" countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S.
When the audience began chanting"send her back" in reference to Omar – who was born in Somalia but moved to the U.S. as a child and is a naturalized citizen – Trump leaned back from the lectern and let the crowd repeat the taunts over and over. At the White House a day later, Trump blamed the audience and said he didn't agree with the chants.Gerry Broome, AP
A few months earlier, Trump went after President Barack Obama in a string of tweets, claiming his predecessor had wiretapped his offices in Trump Tower before Election Day and accusing him of “McCarthyism” and being a “bad guy.” At the time, his then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was under fire for incorrectly portraying his contacts with Russian officials to a Senate committee.
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