President Donald Trump claimed Thursday he "Was not happy" with the crowd at his campaign rally for chanting "Send her back," after he had goaded the North Carolina audience with a fiery attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Just before the incendiary refrain broke out, Trump accused Omar of having "a history of launching vicious, anti-Semitic screeds," and then silently gazed out over the crowd for roughly 15 seconds until the cheers of "Send her back" abated.
The disavowal from Trump contrasts sharply with days of similar racist rhetoric he has leveled against Omar and three other freshman progressive House Democrats - Reps.
Questioned Thursday as to why the crowd began chanting, Trump said "You'd have to ask them," and told reporters to "Go there, go to North Carolina, and you ask the people why they said that."
Appearing again in the Oval Office less than an hour later alongside Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Trump asserted that the crowd was made up of "People that love our country," and argued that the four congresswomen "Should be more positive than they are."
"There is such hatred. They have such hatred," Trump said.
Omar, a Muslim refugee from Somalia who has been a citizen since she was 17, slammed Trump on Thursday for "Spewing his fascist ideology on stage," and told reporters in the Capitol that "Here in the United States, dissent is patriotic."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/18/trump-disavows-send-her-back-chant-from-his-rally-1421371
Just before the incendiary refrain broke out, Trump accused Omar of having "a history of launching vicious, anti-Semitic screeds," and then silently gazed out over the crowd for roughly 15 seconds until the cheers of "Send her back" abated.
The disavowal from Trump contrasts sharply with days of similar racist rhetoric he has leveled against Omar and three other freshman progressive House Democrats - Reps.
Questioned Thursday as to why the crowd began chanting, Trump said "You'd have to ask them," and told reporters to "Go there, go to North Carolina, and you ask the people why they said that."
Appearing again in the Oval Office less than an hour later alongside Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Trump asserted that the crowd was made up of "People that love our country," and argued that the four congresswomen "Should be more positive than they are."
"There is such hatred. They have such hatred," Trump said.
Omar, a Muslim refugee from Somalia who has been a citizen since she was 17, slammed Trump on Thursday for "Spewing his fascist ideology on stage," and told reporters in the Capitol that "Here in the United States, dissent is patriotic."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/18/trump-disavows-send-her-back-chant-from-his-rally-1421371
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