A team of "communists", Trump should "aim higher"

Democrats have set aside recent domestic quarrels to defend four congressional women, whom President Donald Trump urged on Sunday to "go back" and repair the countries they are "in" before attempt to legislate changes in the United States.

Although some conservative commentators have joined the Democrats in condemning the remarks – supposed to target the representatives. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – few Republican lawmakers commented on the controversy.

Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C., was one of the few to speak. He said in an interview with Fox News on Monday that, while agreeing with Trump's critics on the politics of the four women parliamentarians, he thought the president did not "and avoid making you personally in his attacks against them. .

"They are American citizens, they have won the elections, adhere to their policies," Graham said.

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"We all know that the AOC and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country," said Graham, referring to Ocasio-Cortez in his initials. "They call the guards along our border, the border patrol agents, the concentration camp guards, they blame the people who support Israel to do it" for the Benjamins. "They are anti-Semitic and anti-American. . "

But knowing this, the president should "aim higher", he said.

Graham said he had recently spoken to Trump and praised him for his economic achievements and his military success against the Islamic State. He said Trump should contrast that with the goals of these Democrats, which Graham said "destroy the country."

"Concentrate on what they want to do for America and America, and compare it to what you did." "Do not be personal, do not take the bait," Graham told the President. .

"We do not need to know personally about them," he said. "Make them the face of the future of the Democratic Party, you will destroy the Democratic Party.

Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, said he thought the Trump attack on the four Democratic legislators was a smart political move.

"I think the president thinks the more he can get the country to look at the so-called team, the more he can get them to realize how radical they are and how fundamentally anti-American their views are. long term, the better it is, "Gingrich told Fox & Friends.

Representative Justin Amash called Trump's remarks "racist and disgusting, "but the Michigan congressman recently left the Republican Party and before that he had foiled the GOP calling for Trump's removal.

Ocasio-Cortez said that by not commenting on Trump's "racist" remarks, Republican lawmakers had expressed a tacit agreement with them.

"Until Republican officials denounce the explicitly racist statements of yesterday (which should be easy!), We unfortunately have no choice but to assume that we are not going to get away with it. they accept it, "tweeted Ocasio-Cortez on Monday. "It is extremely disturbing that the entire caucus * group is silent, is it their agenda?"

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