Trump Defends Tweets: 'Democrats Need to Apologize to Our Country, Israel, and the Office of President'

Abigail Robertson
07-15-2019

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President Trump is defending a tweet after a backlash from lawmakers and presidential candidates calling his words "racist."

The Speaker of the House also announced a resolution to condemn the President's words. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will take up a resolution condemning what she refers to as President Trump's disgusting attacks against four of her Democrat colleagues, all of whom are women of color. 

This comes in response to Trump's tweets over the weekend calling for the congresswomen to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."

"As far as I'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave," the President said. 

In the tweets, President Trump called out "progressive Democrat congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe.

"They're socialists definitely. As to whether or not they're communists, I would think they might be, but this isn't what our country is about," Trump said. 

On Monday, the President made clear he was talking about the four known as "the squad." Only one of whom was born outside the US - Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) a Somalia refugee.

"When she talked about the World Trade Center being knocked down, some people, you remember the famous 'some people.' These are people that in my opinion hate our country," Trump said. 

Trump is not phased by those calling his comments racist.

"It doesn't concern me, because many people agree with me," he said. 

Democrats are firing back.

"He relies on racism, division & anti-immigrant sentiment to consolidate power because he does not have a positive vision for the future of America," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Ocasio-Cortez shared the following message with the President.

"It's time to move on from him, and his conception of an America that we have tried to move past for a long time," she said. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of President Trump's allies, agreed with the President on some things.

"We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists. They hate Israel. They hate our own country," he told Fox News. 

But Graham advised the President to take it down a notch.

 "Aim higher. We don't need to know anything about them personally, talk about their policies," Graham suggested. 

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) agrees with Sen. Graham. 

"It's really uncalled for," he told the website mibigshow.com. "Very disappointing."

Despite the criticism, Trump so far has just doubled down - saying the radical left congresswomen need to apologize to our country, the people of Israel, and the Office of the President.

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Abigail
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Abigail Robertson serves as the White House Correspondent for CBN News, where she has worked since 2015. As a reporter, Abigail covers stories from a Christian perspective on American politics and the news of the day. Before her role at the White House, Abigail covered Capitol Hill, where she interviewed notable lawmakers such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. During her time on the Hill, Abigail loved highlighting how God is moving in the House and Senate by covering different ministries on Capitol Hill and sharing lawmakers’ testimonies and
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