![]() ![]() She wears a hijab, obliging a change of rules about headgear in Congress. Omar is the first Somali-American member of Congress, and the first (along with Tlaib) of two Muslim women ever elected. Pressley vowed they "would not be silenced". ![]() "The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power," is a favourite mantra. She has spoken about her father being incarcerated and how she is a rape survivor. Pressley has adopted the humanitarian crisis on the southern border and the harsh conditions of detained migrants as focal issues. Takes too much time.”Ī firebrand but nevertheless perhaps the most moderate member of "The Squad", Pressley became the first black congresswoman to represent Massachusetts when she defeated a 20-year incumbent (and fellow progressive) to win an area once represented by John F Kennedy. “No, no: I don’t have time to go with three different names,” Trump said. Trump’s speech in North Carolina also included a professed exasperation with the fact that Ocasio-Cortez’s name is hyphenated. The “lock her up” chant was led at the Republican national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, by Trump’s then campaign adviser Michael Flynn, who later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI but has so far avoided prison time.Īt least three former Trump aides have been locked up since the 2016 campaign, including Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, his former adviser Michael Cohen, and his former adviser George Papadopoulos, while others, including Flynn and Trump’s former adviser Rick Gates, have pleaded guilty to federal felonies. The chant “send her back” was an embroidery of a chant popular during Trump’s first presidential run, when crowds attacked his opponent, Hillary Clinton, with chants of “lock her up”. The crowd chimed in as he finished, shouting “leave it”. You know what? If they don’t love it, tell ’em to leave it.” “They’re always telling us how to run it, how to do this, how to do that. ![]() “Let ’em leave,” Trump said of the members of Congress. “To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people.”īut clearly sensing a political winner – notwithstanding polling showing that a majority of Americans found his remarks to be offensive – Trump riffed on the theme at his rally. “Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president’s racist tweets,” the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said on Tuesday. Trump’s tweets led the House to pass a resolution of condemnation. Trump’s “go back” tweets were prompted by an appearance before a House committee in which the congresswomen testified to inhumane conditions they witnessed during tours of migrant detention facilities in Texas. He also reiterated the 'go home' message, tweeting "IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!" Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public shouting of the F.word, among many other terrible things." On 16 July he tweeted that they had been "spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Trump has subsequently launched several further attacks on the congresswoman accusing them of " foul language & racist hatred". Only Omar, who is from Somalia, was not born in the US. The US president did not name his targets, but the attack was directed at congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. ![]() I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!” These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. Then come back and show us how it is done. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. On 14 July Trump sent a series of tweets saying: ![]()
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