Trump Attacks Congresswomen in Unhinged Presser: 'They Hate Our Country' With a Passion,...

Trump Attacks Congresswomen in Unhinged Presser: ‘They Hate Our Country’ With a Passion, ‘They Hate Jews’

By Colby HallJul 15th, 2019, 1:08 pm

In his first public comments since Sunday morning tweets described by many as racist, President Donald Trump defended his tweets, according to White House reporters assembled on the South Lawn for a “Made in America” press event.

Trump took questions in a contentious back-and-forth from the press and continued to hit Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for “hating Israel” and three other freshman congresswomen, namely Rep. Ayana Pressley, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the last of which he blamed for Amazon not building a East Coast headquarters in Queens, New York.

Trump said of the four Congresswomen “they are very unhappy. I’m watching them, all they do is complain. All I’m saying, if they want to leave, they can leave.” He then turned his focus of derision on Rep. Omar, saying ” I look at the one, I look at Omar. I don’t know, I never met her. I hear the way she talks about Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda has killed many Americans. She said, ‘You can hold your chest out, you can –” when I think of America, when I think of Al Qaeda, I can hold my chest out.'”

He continued “When she talked about the world trade center being knocked down. He remembered the famous “Some people?” These are people that come in my opinion, hit our country. You can say what you want. To get a list of all of the statements they’ve made. If they are not happy here, they can leave.” He finished “They can leave, and you know what? I’m sure there will be many people that want to miss them.”

According to CNN White House Reporter, Kaitlan Collins Trump responded to a question about the racist nature of his Sunday tweetstorm by saying “not at all” continuing by saying ” if somebody doesn’t want to be in our country, they should leave.” It is not clear where he gets the idea that any of the four freshman Congresswomen do not want to be in our country.

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President Trump spoke at length, ultimately claiming that these four Congresswomen “hate our country with a passion” before oddly lamenting how the “Democrat party” would be making a big political mistake by getting behind these four individuals.

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