Trump 2020 Official Claims People Are ‘Lying’ About Trump's Racist Twitter Rant
The media misled Americans when it reported that President Donald Trump ordered progressive congresswomen of color to “go back” to their “crime-infested” hellhole countries, a Trump 2020 re-election campaign official insisted Sunday. According to Matt Wolking, Trump did say that, but he didn’t say forever. The president pointed out that they could return to the U.S. after they help “fix” things in the other countries he imagines they’re from.
Three of the four progressive female lawmakers he was clearly targeting were born in the United States. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) have more generations of Americans in their ancestries than Trump, whose paternal grandfather and mother were immigrants. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrant parents. Only Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was born in a foreign country — Somalia — and moved as a child to America, where she became a citizen.
“Anyone who says the president told members of Congress to go back to where they came from is lying,” tweeted Wolking, communications deputy director of Donald J. Trump for President. “He told them to ‘Then come back and show us how it is done.’” Wolking’s tweet included a screenshot of Trump’s message in which he clearly writes: “Why don’t they go back” to the “crime-infested places from which they came.”
Anyone who says the president told members of Congress to go back to where they came from is lying.
He told them to “Then come back and show us how it is done.” pic.twitter.com/7pmb0DNz1c— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) July 14, 2019
As usual, members of the media are misleading Americans by using selective quotes and not telling the whole story
— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) July 14, 2019
Wolking was hired by the Trump campaign in March to head its “aggressive rapid response team, refuting attacks and exposing the fake news media,” according to a statement from the operation reported at the time by The Associated Press.
Many who read Wolking’s jaw-dropping defense of Trump’s statement couldn’t believe their eyes.
Dude. Dude! He said it right there in your screengrab. It's RIGHT THERE!
— Lori, stop the nonsense (@lorimakesquilts) July 14, 2019
Dear god Trump's entire team reads as poorly as he does.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) July 14, 2019
— LDH (@lividdelight) July 14, 2019
He literally said "go back".
Are you literate?— Red™️ (@Redpainter1) July 14, 2019
Fantastic point, Matt!
More specifically, what countries did they originally come from?https://t.co/2ezNvmbQag— Old Rant Dump (@TrumpinTheShark) July 14, 2019
So, @AOC is literally the rep of where Donald Trump grew up. And that’s where she’s from. Born and raised in New York. @RashidaTlaib is from Michigan. @AyannaPressley is from Illinois.@IlhanMN escaped war, came here as a refugee at age 10, and became a citizen at 17.
— Joshua Lander (@lander) July 14, 2019
Quoting Trump is now "lying" according to Trump's "Director of Rapid Response" https://t.co/MJyHJ1eV0T
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 14, 2019
Go to Antarctica and melt all the ice and then come back. And if you say I told you to "go to Antarctica" that's a LIE because I said you could come back after you melted all the ice.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 14, 2019
There's a reason his title isn't Director of Intelligent Response.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 14, 2019
This is BENEATH THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 🗣Period!!!! There is no amount of spin-doctoring that will change that fact. #ImpeachDonaldTrumpNOW #ImpeachTheMF #TrumpIsARacist #RacistInChief #RacistPig #BirtherLie #CentralParkFive #LockHimUp pic.twitter.com/4rfJsVLzhd
— #FlyEaglesFly 🦅 (@SheBleedsGreen) July 14, 2019
He said what he said. No amount of spin is going to change that. Stop trying to defend the indefensible.
— Treasure Daymone (@TreasureDaymone) July 14, 2019
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