Republicans largely silent as Trump renews attack on congresswomen of color
In the face of international condemnation – but very little comment from his own party – Donald Trump returned to the offensive against four Democratic congresswoman he targeted with racial invective on Sunday.True to provocative form, the president accused the Democrats of “spewing” “racist hatred” – precisely the offence of which he has been widely accused.
The tweet reflected others Trump sent late on Sunday amid the storm created by his initial demand that the unnamed congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime[-]infested places from which they came”. In familiar fashion, Trump’s first tweets, sent perhaps to distract from controversy over squalid conditions at the southern border and certainly in an attempt to drive a wedge into a fissure in the opposition party, were factually inaccurate.
Ocasio-Cortez is a prominent advocate of policies such as the Green New Deal which have made her a much-ridiculed hate figure on Fox News and among Trump’s base. Pressley has been prominent in criticism of the Trump administration over the border crisis.Condemnation of Trump’s attack on the congresswomen was widespread on Sunday, with the four Democrats targeted, senior party figures and mainstream press outlets condemning them as racist.
Commentators from the Never Trump wing of the party were swift to condemn the president. Charlie Sykes, an editor at the Bulwark website, wrote: “There was a time when GOPers like Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Jeff Flake, even Reince [Priebus] would have denounced this kind of racism. Who will speak out now? Will any elected Republican push back?”
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