Why Republican senators have to stop hiding from Trump's tweets
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Why Republican senators have to stop hiding from Trump's tweets
On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted a conspiracy theory that an elderly man hurt in a confrontation with police in Buffalo was somehow affiliated with Antifa -- and may have faked the extent of his injuries.
By Tuesday afternoon, Republican senators were already playing out a familiar routine when it comes to the President's tweets: Pleading total ignorance.
"I didn't see it," Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said of the Trump tweet. "You're telling me about it. I don't read Twitter. I only write on it."
Colorado GOP Sen. Cory Gardner told reporters on Capitol Hill that he had not seen the tweet and "didn't want to look at it," according to Politico's Burgess Everett. (Everett had the Trump tweet printed out, offering to allow any senator who claimed to not have seen it the opportunity to read it and then comment on it.)
"I'm not going to comment on the President's tweets," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the second-ranking Republican in the chamber.
If those responses sound familiar to you, they should. It's the same thing most Republican elected officials said when Trump suggested on Twitter, with zero evidence, that former Florida Rep. Joe Scarborough was somehow involved in the death of a young aide in his district office in the early 2000s. Or when Trump tweeted that members of the so-called "Squad" -- four freshman Congresswomen of color -- should "go back" to the countries they came from. (Three of the four women were born in the United States; the other is a naturalized American citizen.) Or when Trump attacked former Defense Secretary James Mattis. Or former chief of staff John Kelly.
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