Posted on 07/18/2019 12:42:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), the vice chair of the House Republican Conference, is pushing back — though only slightly — after President Trump's rally crowd chanted "send her back!" about a minority congresswoman.
Walker on Thursday tweeted that "I struggled with" the chant at Trump's Wednesday night rally, which came as the president repeated his attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of the four minority congresswomen he told to "go back" to where she came from in a weekend tweet. Omar fled to the United States as a refugee from Somalia at a young age.
This language at the rally, Walker suggested, is "painful to our friends in the minority communities." At the same time, Walker didn't veer too far from Trump's talking points because in the same tweet he attacked Omar as someone who has "great disdain" for the United States.
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Though it was brief, I struggled with the “send her back” chant tonight referencing Rep. Omar. Her history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel. That should be our focus and not phrasing that’s painful to our friends in the minority communities.
— Rep. Mark Walker (@RepMarkWalker) July 18, 2019
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Trump's weekend tweets drew some pushback from elected Republicans, while GOP leaders like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) defended him and argued he is not racist. On Thursday, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) joined Walker in criticizing the chant by saying "there is no place for that" while defending Trump as someone who "does not have a racist bone in his body," reports Time's Alana Abramson.
Outside of elected officials, Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, also called the chants "wrong" and "vile," adding that they "don't reflect who we are as Americans," while conservative Trump critic Bill Kristol tweeted that "'send her back' conservatism is not a conservatism worth defending."
What a loser wad.
Weakness is unbecoming.
What about the “Trump is a traitor” and “Trump is an agent of Vladimir Putin” and “Trump is a Nazi” and “Trump is a white supremicist.”
Have any qualms about those statements when they were broadcast through every corner of the MSM?
Sure is.
Hey, it was just some people who said something....
Just say you didn’t like it and move on ,don’t overdo it the left and MSM will , well you know
Next rally, the chant should be, “LET HER LEAVE!” It’s more to the point, and closer to what Trump said.
Lol.
Good one.
This is the kind of pc no balls weenie we don’t want and certainly don’t need. If he has trouble differentiating honest legal immigrants from a fraud like Omar he is too dumb to tie his own shoes.
This idiot snowflake is worse than a RINO!
Isn’t he just precious.
Mark, sweetie, best you grow a pair or you’ll be out on yer keester.
If that is all that will make him uncomfortable, then may be he should find a job that is more to his liking.
I wish someone with the means to do so would either prove or disprove the allegations about Omar and her brother and lying on her immigration forms. The whole story needs to come out, one way or the other.
Weak GOP who supports open borders.
NO MORE FRIGGIN APOLOGIES. The left has no moral authority to preach to me on any subject. I could care less if any of them get offended.
They should ship her ass back..she committed immigration fraud, and compares Israel, our strongest ally, to Nazi Germany..so F her..whenever I see her smiling smug arrogant face I want to vomit..when Dems call for Melania to be deported I didnt see ANY outrage, when some dumb ass reporter called for Sebastian Gorka to be deported I didnt see any outrage
President Trump and his family have been getting death threats since day 1..CNN called for Donald Trump and Mike Pence to be assassinated before they took office in a “Hypothetical” scenario..yet no one said nothing
Omar is now claiming that all “people of color” are in danger because of a chant at a political pep rally. This is complete BS and nobody in their right mind should support it.
No matter how much this fool grovels and no matter how much he fears the Democrat/Left, they will always hate him. Not worth a second of effort ...
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