The Latest: Trump tweets on liberal lawmakers draw rebuke

Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's tweets on Democratic congresswomen (all times local):

6:20 p.m.

President Donald Trump has injected race into his criticism of liberal Democrats.

Trump tweeted Sunday that four congresswomen of color should go back to what he calls the "broken and crime infested" countries they came from. That ignores the fact that all four of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S.

Trump's attack has drawn a searing condemnation from Democrats who labeled the remarks racist and breathtakingly divisive.

Republicans have remained largely silent after Trump's morning broadsides against the four women. But the president's nativist tweets caused Democrats to set aside their internal rifts to rise up in a united chorus against the president.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Trump wants to "make America white again."

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4:45 p.m.

President Donald Trump is assailing a group of Democratic congresswomen of color as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came. But he's ignoring the fact that the women are American citizens and all but one was born in the U.S.

Trump's tweets prompted a wave of condemnation from Democrats, who set aside their rifts to speak as one in calling Trump's remarks racist.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the president wants to "make America white again." Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, jousting for days with Pelosi, said Trump "can't conceive of an America that includes us."

Trump was almost certainly referring to Ocasio-Cortez and her allies. The others are Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

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9:50 a.m.

President Donald Trump is wading provocatively into a rift between a group of liberal Democratic congresswomen and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In tweets Sunday, Trump portrays the lawmakers as foreign-born troublemakers who, he says, should go back to their home countries. He tweets: "You can't leave fast enough." In fact, the lawmakers in question are Americans and all but one were born in the U.S.

Trump assails what he calls "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe." He does not identify the women.

But he's unmistakably referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and her allies in what's become known as the squad. The others are Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib. Only Omar was foreign-born.