US House of Representatives vote to condemn Donald Trump's 'racist comments' on four minority Democratic Congresswomen
5 years, 5 months ago

US House of Representatives vote to condemn Donald Trump's 'racist comments' on four minority Democratic Congresswomen

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Trump’s criticism was aimed at four freshman Democrats who have garnered attention since their arrival in January for their outspoken liberal views and thinly veiled distaste for Trump – Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Washington: In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led US House voted on Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of colour, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.” Two days after Trump tweeted that four Democratic freshmen should “go back " to their home countries — though all are citizens and three were born in the USA — Democrats muscled the resolution through the chamber by 240-187 over the near-solid GOP opposition. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” He wrote that House Republicans should “not show ‘weakness’” by agreeing to a resolution he labelled “a Democrat con game.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, one of Trump’s four targets, returned his fire. The four-page Democratic resolution said the House “strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.” It said Trump’s slights “do not belong in Congress or in the United States of America.” The resolution included a full page of remarks by former President Ronald Reagan, who is revered by the GOP. Reagan had said in 1989 that if the US shut its doors to newcomers, “our leadership in the world would soon be lost.” Trump’s criticism was aimed at four freshman Democrats who have garnered attention since their arrival in January for their outspoken liberal views and thinly veiled distaste for Trump: Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

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