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The US Home of Representatives on Tuesday voted 240-187 to censure Donald Trump for calling on 4 minority Democratic feminine lawmakers to “return” to the place they got here from, a decision that was backed by solely 4 Republicans.
The vote got here after a raucous debate on the Home flooring, the place members from each events attacked one another with uncommon viciousness. The decision condemned the president for “racist feedback which have legitimised and elevated concern and hatred of latest People and other people of color”.
Forward of the vote, Mr Trump rejected solutions that his feedback had been racist and urged Republicans to carry the road.
“These tweets had been NOT racist. I don’t have a racist bone in my physique! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con recreation,” Mr Trump tweeted. “Republicans shouldn’t present ‘weak point’ and fall into their entice.”
That is disgusting. That is probably the most racist outbreak of statements from a president that I’ve heard in my lifetime
Whereas Mr Trump didn’t identify the targets of his Sunday tweets, they had been broadly seen as geared toward 4 Democrats often known as “The Squad”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley. All are Americans who — except for Ms Omar who got here to the US as a Somali refugee — had been born within the US.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the Home who has herself been in battle with Squad members over how laborious to problem Mr Trump, used the decision to vociferously again the 4 congresswomen, calling the remarks “not solely divisive however harmful”.
“These feedback from the White Home are disgraceful and disgusting and these feedback are racist,” Ms Pelosi stated.
Kevin McCarthy, the Republican chief within the Home, sought to painting the decision as a political stunt and criticised his Democratic counterparts for upsetting the “order and decency” of the chamber.
Democrats used the talk to recount a few of Mr Trump’s most controversial remarks, together with calling African nations “shithole nations”. Republicans sought to have these remarks stricken from the report since vulgarisms are barred from congressional debates.
Democrats consider Mr Trump is repeating ways he used throughout the 2016 presidential race when he stoked fears — and energised his conservative base — with rhetoric that was seen as anti-immigrant at greatest and racist at worst.
When he introduced his presidential marketing campaign in June 2015, Mr Trump railed towards immigrants from Mexico who he stated had been “rapists” and murderers. He additionally drew condemnation final 12 months when he stated some white supremacists at protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, had been “very tremendous folks”.
Mr Trump’s current remarks have drawn criticism from a number of Democratic presidential candidates. Bernie Sanders, the US senator from Vermont, stated Mr Trump was a “racist” and “bigot”.
“That is disgusting,” Mr Sanders stated at an occasion sponsored by The Washington Publish. “That is probably the most racist outbreak of statements from a president that I’ve heard in my lifetime.”
Kamala Harris, the African-American senator from California who can be in search of the Democratic social gathering’s nomination, stated Mr Trump had “defiled” his workplace.
“I’ve personally been advised . . . return to the place you got here from,” Ms Harris stated whereas campaigning in Iowa. “It’s vile, it’s ignorant, it’s shallow, it’s hateful, and it has to cease.”
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Republicans have virtually solely refused to criticise Mr Trump. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority chief, on Tuesday stated the recriminations over the remarks had been “not good for the nation”, including that “the president just isn’t a racist”.
Solely a handful of Republicans, comparable to Will Hurd, the social gathering’s solely African-American consultant within the Home, have rebuked the president. Mr Hurd, Fred Upton of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Susan Brooks of Indiana had been the 4 Republicans to vote for the decision.
Justin Amash, a Michigan consultant who give up the Republican social gathering over its continued backing of Mr Trump, additionally voted to again the measure.
