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After a tumultuous day in Washington which saw the Democratic Party kill their own member’s impeachment bill, a successful vote to hold his Attorney General in contempt, and a Republican member of the Senate obstruct the passage of a bill to fund 9/11 first responders, President Trump took off for Greenville, North Carolina, for yet another one of his periodic adulation-and-demagoguery rallies.
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Hungry like a shark that smells the blood and soil in the water after his week-long racist smear campaign against four Democratic women representatives of color — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-IL) — it did not take long for the president to go off the rails tonight.
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In an appalling series of false and misleading smears at Rep. Ilhan Omar, Trump accused her of sympathizing with terrorism, downplaying the severity of 9/11, and of being anti-Semitic.
Then the crowd responded — with terrifying chants of “SEND HER BACK.”
Trump fans eventually break out in "send her back!" chants directed toward Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who serves in Congress who Trump viciously smeared. pic.twitter.com/LX3eAEkfci
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 17, 2019
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On top of that, he repeated his taunting xenophobic comments from earlier this week, telling them to “leave if they don’t love it here.”
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"If they don't like it – let 'em leave," Pres Trump tells those he calls "hate filled extremists." "If they don't love it, tell them to leave it," he says is his advice to those who criticize America. But says it's their choice – they can come back when they want. pic.twitter.com/NfvKc9dUZ7
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 18, 2019
In his attacks on Democrats, he painted them as un-American and enemies of the American way of life, using the barely coded language of white nationalism to drum up hatred and fear against Democratic women of color.
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Trump, alluding to Democratic congresswoman of color, says they “want to demolish our constitution, weaken our military, eliminate the values that built this magnificent country.” The crowd boos them loudly. pic.twitter.com/l9tUHrRgB7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 17, 2019
And they loved it. The crowd loved it, lapped it up like the hooting and baying swine they are. The polls that showed Trump’s support among Republicans rising after his recent racist attacks definitely aren’t an anomaly.
We have to reckon with the fact that a not-insignificant portion of this country openly embraces racist ideas and is over the moon at the sight of the president tearing away at the weak sutures that hold this nation’s deep racial wounds together.
But first, we have to make sure that Ilhan Omar is safe. The almost constant stream of death threats against her is going to spike heavily after this disgusting display of Islamophobic lies from the President of the United States.
