Donald Trump has responded angrily on Twitter after the four Democratic congresswomen he attacked in a series of racist tweets – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib - staged a press conference on Monday night strongly condemning his behaviour and calling for his impeachment.
“The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public shouting of the F... word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills.”
With Republicans still desperate to avoid being drawn on the matter, Representative Omar attacked President Trump’s “white nationalist agenda” and said: “It is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery of our constitution. It’s time for us to impeach this president.”
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Donald Trump said in the Oval Office he was confident immigration reform could be a winning election issue for Republicans if he can’t manage to get it passed now.
He also said he was confident the US Senate would pick up Republican seats and the GOP would win back the US House of Representatives.
House Democrats plan for a vote this afternoon on a resolution that “strongly condemns Donald Trump’s racist comments” that four congresswomen of color should return to their native countries.
The measure says Mr Trump’s tweets Sunday “have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.”
The four-page resolution quotes from a 1989 speech by President Ronald Reagan that said America draws its strength “from every country and every corner of the world.” Reagan, a Republican, said that if the US ever closed its doors to immigrants, “our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
The Democrats’ measure says the House is “committed to keeping America open to those lawfully seeking refuge and asylum.”
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The company has denied that it works with China's military in response to the claims, posted by the president in an early morning Twitter storm.
The president had echoed claims made by tech billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, who suggested that Google has been infiltrated by Chinese governments and was working with them to undermine the US.
