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Speaker MORE (Texas) and Michael Turner (Ohio) — explicitly called Trump's tweets racist in statements on Monday. But most GOP lawmakers have declined to go as far, even if they pushed back against the comments.

Democrats unleashed a fury of criticism on MORE throughout the day on Monday as his attacks on a group of minority congresswomen served to unite a divided caucus against the White House.

Greenblatt, a former Obama administration official, tweeted Monday: In a more extensive statement, the ADL accused Trump of undermining “widespread, bipartisan support for Israel” — without reference to the anti-Israel drift of the Democrats, not one of whom attended the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem last year, and who could not bring themselves to criticize Rep.

Willem Van Spronsen wrote, according to a copy of the manifesto posted by KIRO-TV: Van Spronsen’s use of the term “concentration camps” comes after Ocasio-Cortez began using the controversial term to describe the detention facilities used for illegal immigrants coming through the southern United States’ border with Mexico. Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term, alth

“The President of the United States is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, as well as an invidious prevaricator. To say that Donald John Trump is unfit for the Office of the President of the United States is an understatement. He is unfit for public office, and if he displayed any of these behaviors in most private companies, he would be summarily terminated with haste,” Green said in a statement. “I was not told to speak out on the bigotry emanating from the White House. I was compelled to speak out.

Biden, who has recently come under fire for praising segregationists, appears to have made the comments during a Senate committee hearing in 1977 while debating a busing measure.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s campaign says she has brought in $2 million in the second quarter of 2019. That’s far ahead of the over $1 million Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sara Gideon says she brought in between June 24 and June 30. Collins campaign Monday says she has $5.4 million cash-on-hand.

Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar spoke out against President Trump in a Monday press conference, delivering a blistering rebuke a day after he said in a tweet that they should go back to “the broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Pressley, who represents the Seventh District of Massachusetts as the first African-American woman elected from the state, spoke first, and thanked supporters for “the solidarity we have received from every corner of our country.” She denounced the “most recent xe

President Donald Trump on Monday defended his tweets suggesting that four Democratic members of Congress “go back” to the countries they came from by assailing one, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, for what he said were remarks she had made about Al Qaeda. “I am watching them, all they do is complain, so all I’m saying is if they want to leave they can leave,” Trump said before launching into a broad attack on Omar, who was born in Somalia but is a naturalized United States citizen. What Trump said: “I look at Omar, I don’t know, I never met her.