Texas Republicans criticize Trump over tweets [View all]
Source: statesman.com
Updated Jul 15, 2019 at 7:28 PM
A handful of Texas Republicans in Congress admonished President Donald Trump for a series of Sunday tweets in which he told four members of Congress — three born in the U.S. and all American citizens — to “go back” to the countries they came from, even as Trump doubled down on his comments Monday.
“POTUS was wrong to say any American citizen, whether in Congress or not, has any ‘home’ besides the U.S.,” U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, who lives just outside Austin in Hays County, said in a tweet Sunday night.
Republican U.S. Reps. Will Hurd of Helotes, a longtime thorn in the president’s side on border security issues, and Pete Olson of Sugar Land, who has been more hesitant to criticize the president, delivered stronger rebukes.
In an interview Monday on CNN, Hurd called the tweets “racist,” “xenophobic” and “unbecoming of the leader of the free world.” On Twitter, Olson called on Trump to “immediately disavow his comments” and added that the tweets were “not reflective of the values of the 1,000,000+ people in Texas (District) 22.”
Their comments were notable because most Republicans remained silent on the topic, even as Democrats, including the objects of Trump’s ire, spoke forcefully against him...............
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190715/texas-republicans-criticize-trump-over-tweets
It may be that it is a slow trickle of Repug condemation of Trump racist comments.
I see both Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney put out statements condemning the comments, but they did not call them racists. --there may have been other Repugs who put out post but I have not seen them
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