He disavowed the “Send her back” chant and then he doubled down by praising the crowd – this is just like Charlottesville.
It is pathetic how few Republicans pushed back against Trump’s racist comments. They know he will attack him and they will probably not get re-elected. They saw what happened to Flake and Corker.
"He always doubles down": Inside the political crisis caused by Trump's racist tweets, latest w/ @jdawsey1 @AshleyRParker @seungminkimhttps://t.co/EB42UyNZeT
— michaelscherer (@michaelscherer) July 20, 2019
Post-fact claim it was strategy by some Trump allies is similar to him saying he forecast AOC winning, when no aide heard him say that before her primary but many did after, when he would insist he saw it coming. https://t.co/Somw6bfKYu
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 20, 2019
"To watch raucous crowds of (mostly) white Americans unite in frenzied hatred of a black woman — to watch them cast her as a cancer on the body politic and a threat to a racialized social order — is to see the worst of our past play out in modern form." https://t.co/AEmpLfHhKG
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 20, 2019
Opinion: Those who don’t condemn Trump’s racism are complicit in his bigotry https://t.co/cTbK5WDCeq
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 20, 2019
Every major western leader – Merkel, May, Trudeau, Macron – has condemned Trump’s racial invective. Can’t think of a parallel when America’s leading allies all censored US president. https://t.co/W8fOU35DBQ
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) July 19, 2019
Jon Meacham: "What the president's done here is, yet again, because he did it after Charlottesville and … when he was pushing the birther lie about Pres. Obama, is he has joined Andrew Johnson as the most racist president in American history." https://t.co/IkScd8sSkT
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 20, 2019
“In 2007, the commission sued … on behalf of a … salesperson of Indian descent who was … told that he should ‘just go back where [he] came from.’ … The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with EEOC[] [and] cited … the phrase several times in rendering its decision.” https://t.co/RtUgUzmt7M
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 20, 2019
Trump’s supposed Secret Political Genius is overblown – The Washington Post https://t.co/4u3AtVfp0c
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) July 19, 2019
Sad! 