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Did Trump really take a political risk in telling Omar to go back to her country?
American Thinker ^ | 15 Jul, 2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 07/15/2019 7:00:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

So did Trump blow it by implicitly telling Rep. Ilhan Omar to go back to her home country, fix it up, and get back to us? Did he overplay his hand? Is a remark like that, universally decried by Democrats, a step too far? Not by Trump's standards. The controversial string of tweets, which stirred the pot mightily in the press, was as politically incorrect as it comes. In fact, Trump hasn't put out a string like this since the 2016 campaign......

It's telling that even as Pelosi spars with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Trump took on Ocasio-Cortez's pal, Rep. Ilhan Omar, the only one who comes from a foreign country.

Omar, it turns out, is a massive liability for the Democrats. Making her the face of the Democrats is a pretty good way of triggering a GOP landslide, not just in the White House, but in the House of Representatives. Among the working-class voters Democrats must win over to win the presidency, and, for that matter, both houses of Congress, Omar sports an abysmal 9% approval rating along with a 53% recognition rate. She's the most unpopular of all of them. According to the Daily Wire:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: MtnClimber
...the socialist squad.

SS?

81 posted on 07/15/2019 8:52:48 AM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Is a remark like that, universally decried by Democrats, a step too far?”

They aren’t going to vote for him any way, so why should he care what they think?


82 posted on 07/15/2019 8:53:41 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MtnClimber

he said exactly what many Americans wanted to say.


83 posted on 07/15/2019 8:54:15 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: DoodleDawg

Either way stroke of genius in having the media/dems defend these anti semetic creeps


84 posted on 07/15/2019 8:58:22 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: italianquaker
Either way stroke of genius in having the media/dems defend these anti semetic creeps

It's easy to defend them from what the media claims are attacks on their ethnic origins. Trump should be trying to attack them on their specific policies.

85 posted on 07/15/2019 9:00:38 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/452985-pelosi-trumps-xenophobic-attack-on-dem-lawmakers-reaffirms-his-plan-to-make


86 posted on 07/15/2019 9:29:29 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: DoodleDawg

Doesnt really matter, the racist card has been overplayed against President Trump and most reasonable people are no longer interested


87 posted on 07/15/2019 10:21:27 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: Drew68

If Trump meant for them to go back to their countries, I don’t have an issue with it, either...not trying to minimize or soften anything...that’s how I interpret what he tweeted.

He didn’t specifically say “go back to the countries...”


88 posted on 07/15/2019 10:44:16 AM PDT by kdmhcdcfld (Use of this tagline without the express written consent of Free Republic is prohibited.)
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To: MtnClimber

just saying what most of us already have thought about people who come from another country or who’s parents came from another country and all they do is complain about the USA.

Don’t like it, go back to your homeland


89 posted on 07/15/2019 11:49:37 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: McGavin999
He said they should go back to their countries of origin, fix them, then come back and show us how it’s done. I’m sick of watching the media distort what he says. Even FOX...

Yup.

90 posted on 07/15/2019 11:50:19 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: MtnClimber

He told the AOC Posse to:

1. Go back to their countries.
2. Fix their countries.
3. RETURN HERE and show us how it’s done.

So the NeverTrumpers only heard the #1 part, and (again) don’t report truthfully.


91 posted on 07/15/2019 11:51:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: ozarker
The “never trumpers” are clucking their tongues saying “well I never”,

Canidid photo of their reaction:

92 posted on 07/15/2019 12:27:41 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: MtnClimber

Did Trump really take a political risk in telling Omar to go back to her country?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nope.

Read about Trumps brilliant Strategy here:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3764211/posts?page=22#22


93 posted on 07/15/2019 1:35:57 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: This I Wonder32460
Did the President specifically mean Omar or was he referring to anyone and everyone from elsewhere who came from elsewhere and are complaining about the USA?

It was a response to anti-American public comments by Omar...

94 posted on 07/15/2019 4:10:16 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: MtnClimber

President Trump’s little news conference shows exactly why he is so great. Talk about patience and control.
How many of us would be able to control the bully press and calmly sit down and sign an important document immediately after.

This is why he is loved. Never backs down, always lands on his feet, holds his head up high and repeats and explains exactly what he meant when he said it.

I sincerely believe the man is a genius at reading people, only the best can do that consistently.


95 posted on 07/15/2019 4:18:44 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: DoodleDawg; kdmhcdcfld
I believe he was telling her to go back to her district and fix it up.

I don't know too many people who concluded that based on his Tweet.

Anyone who read the 'tweet' would have no choice but to conclude what he actually tweeted...

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
· Jul 14, 2019

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....

They are publicly telling everyone how screwed up our Country is...Trump is pointing out that the U.S. is no where near as screwed up as their ancestral homelands so before they criticize us, go fix up their own countries to where they are better than we are and THEN come back and show us how to do it...

There is no other way his tweet could be taken unless it is misquoted and lied about...

96 posted on 07/15/2019 4:33:51 PM PDT by Iscool
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