Posted on 07/18/2019 12:48:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump claimed Thursday he “was not happy” with the crowd at his campaign rally for chanting “send her back,” after he had goaded the North Carolina audience with a fiery attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar.
"I was not happy with it. I disagree with it. But again, I didn't say that. They did. But I disagree with it," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that he “started speaking very quickly” in an attempt to silence the rally attendees.
Prior to the audience at Greenville's East Carolina University breaking into their chant Wednesday night, the president tore into Omar, mischaracterizing past controversial statements by the Minnesota Democrat related to the 9/11 terror attacks and Al Qaeda that conservatives have seized upon in recent months.
Just before the incendiary refrain broke out, Trump accused Omar of having "a history of launching vicious, anti-Semitic screeds," and then silently gazed out over the crowd for roughly 15 seconds until the cheers of "send her back" abated.
"It was quite a chant, and I felt a little bit badly about it," Trump said on Thursday, later hailing the number of supporters inside the "packed arena" and boasting of the "tremendous support" and "great energy" enjoyed by the Republican Party.
"I say there is far more energy on the right than there is on the left," he said, adding, "I think we have far more support than they do and I think we have far more energy than they do. And we’re going to have a very interesting election. But I was not happy when I heard that chant."
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Look in the mirror!
If you can do better than Trump, enduring what he has, then run for POTUS and show us how it’s done!
I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one. I haven’t seen him make any missteps after a bit of scratching my head and waiting. We’ll know by this weekend!
I think he’s just giving space for her crimes to be exposed at which point he’ll “change his mind” while allowing the proper department “look into it”. I wouldn’t be surprised by anything, but this is not some unforced error.
Great analogy.
You all don’t get it! She should never go home. Her, AOC and the other bitches are doing what we have been praying for, the disstruction of the DNC, by thier members and using their own rules of intolerance. We need her. Trump is smarter then all of you! Keep her her!
I have merely been doing is reply to them, as civilly as is humanly possible, considering what they have posted to me. That's hardly "obsessing"!
And your snarky, smarmy post to me, only makes you look line the "bad" one; espedcially since you claim to agree with me.
Hello John.
I know.
You’re are trying to win the internets.
I get it.
Hello Obama!
LOL
Awesome.
***wink***
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