White identity politics drives Trump – lashes out again at minority lawmakers as House prepares to condemn his racist tweets
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White identity politics drives Trump, and the Republican Party under him
As the House of Representatives prepared to vote Tuesday evening on a resolution condemning President Trump’s racist tweets about four minority lawmakers, he again lashed out at the freshman Democrats and questioned why Congress was not rebuking them instead.
Trump also insisted his tweets were not racist — “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” he wrote on Twitter — and urged fellow Republicans not to fall into a “trap” by voting Tuesday night on the Democratic-backed resolution.
“The Democrat Congresswomen have 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 pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party,” Trump said in a tweet, listing several grievances about the lawmakers. “Why isn’t the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!”
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