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Representative Rashida Tlaib hit back at President Donald Trump’sracist tweetsand“send her back” chantsat one of his rallies last week.
During a speech at the NAACP’s national convention on Monday, Rep. Tlaibtoldthe crowd, “I’m not going nowhere, not until I impeach this president,” according toCNN.
“You are all the squad. Trust me, if you believe in support equity, if you support justice, you are one of us,” she said. “We need bold action folks. And I know what’s happening out there. You know, there’s a lot of young women and it’s beyond the just the four of us.”
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?” Trumptweetedat an unnamed group of “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen,” though he did not name them.
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‘The Squad’: Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley.J Scott Applewhite/AP/Shutterstock
“We don’t leave the things that we love, and when we love this country, what that means is that we propose the solutions to fix it,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a joint press conference last week with other “squad” members.
Although the president has backpedaled on the “send her back” chants targeted at Omar, that took him 13 seconds to stop at North Carolina campaign rally, hetweetedon Monday: “The ‘Squad’ is a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart.”
source: people.com
