Trump spent his campaign stop tearing into Omar with an extended monologue that portrayed her as an anti-semitic terrorist sympathizer who “looks down with contempt on the hardworking Americans”
on Wednesday escalated his racist attacks on the progressive lawmakers he’s spent days taunting to leave the country, singling out Minnesota Rep.at a North Carolina rally with an extended rant that culminated with his supporters chanting: “Send her back! Send her back!”
Republicans have spent days performing complex verbal gymnastics to explain why Trump’s repeated calls for progressive congresswomen to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came” aren’t racist. At Wednesday evening’s raucous campaign event in North Carolina, however, he again pulled the rug out from under them, tearing into Omar with an extended monologue that portrayed her as an anti-semitic terrorist sympathizer who “looks down with contempt on the hardworking Americans.
—for the better part of a week, Trump has seemingly zeroed in on Omar. On Wednesday afternoon he floated a racist conspiracy about her to reporters outside the White House, couched in the “many people are saying” construction he uses to spout his most toxic falsehoods. “There’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,” he, repeating the baseless claim that has swirled in far-right circles. “I know nothing about it.
Republicans, meanwhile, have remained relatively tight-lipped on the matter. Some have argued that perhaps Trump was simply telling lawmakers to go back to their
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