Liz Cheney says Trump's attack on congresswomen "isn't about race"
Rep. Liz Cheney, the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, pushed back on the notion that President Trump's recent attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color are racist and sexist, arguing the commander-in-chief's criticism of the progressive quartet is solely rooted in disagreements over policy.
"I think the news media really wants to make this about race," Cheney, the House GOP conference chair, said during a combative interview on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "This isn't about race. It's not about gender. It's not about religion."
Cheney suggested race is not a factor in the recent high-profile feud between Mr. Trump and Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. Despite only one of them being foreign-born, the president said the four lawmakers should "go back" to the "totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."
The Wyoming Republican, who is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said the president's criticism of Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Pressley is based strictly on his strong opposition to their rhetoric and signature progressive policy proposals — which Cheney believes are "dangerous" to the U.S.
"When you have members of Congress who are as anti-Semitic as Ilhan Omar has been, when you have members of Congress who are advocating the, you know, complete elimination of the use of all fossil fuels, all air travel, the elimination of private insurance, the imposition of socialism on this country, we're not going to stand for that," she said. "We're not going to stand for policies that take freedom away from the American people. That's what this fight is about."
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Are you forgetting "Jews will not replace us" which was chanted by Trump's very fine people?
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