How Trump’s racist comments can be used against him in court
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🗓️ 19 July 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Last Sunday, President Trump sent out a series of racist tweets attacking four minority |
| 0:08.8 | Congresswomen who have been critical of his administration. |
| 0:12.8 | Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Presley of Massachusetts, |
| 0:18.2 | Rashida Thalib of Michigan and Elon Omar of Minnesota. |
| 0:22.2 | His tweets said the four Democrats should go back to the crime-infested places from which |
| 0:27.2 | they came. |
| 0:28.7 | The four of the Congresswomen are American citizens and only Omar, a Somali refugee, |
| 0:33.7 | was not born in the United States. |
| 0:36.3 | By Monday, after widespread backlash, Trump doubled down on his comments at a White House |
| 0:41.2 | event. |
| 0:42.2 | All they do is complain. |
| 0:43.2 | So all I'm saying is if they want to leave, they can leave, John. |
| 0:46.7 | They can leave. |
| 0:47.9 | And what's more at a campaign rally on Wednesday in North Carolina, Trump attacked the |
| 0:52.7 | Congresswomen again, specifically listing controversial remarks made by Omar and |
| 0:58.6 | falsely claiming that she had praised Al Qaeda. |
| 1:01.3 | And obviously and importantly, Omar has a history of launching vicious anti-Semitic |
| 1:11.1 | screens. |
| 1:12.4 | Trump has since said he disagrees with those send her back chance that erupted as he spoke |
| 1:20.5 | at the rally. |
| 1:21.5 | But regardless, the event made clear that Trump plans to use his criticism of the liberal |
| 1:26.4 | lawmakers as a rallying cry during his 2020 campaign, framing the election around a nationalist |
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