US President Donald Trump thanked the members of the Republican Party for their unity in voting against the resolution, condemning the president’s incendiary statements about the Democrat Congresswomen.
“So great to see how unified the Republican Party was on today’s vote concerning statements I made about four Democrat Congresswomen. If you really want to see statements, look at the horrible things they said about our Country, Israel, and much more. They are now the top, most visible members of the House Democrats, who are now wedded to this bitterness and hate,” Trump tweeted.
He noted that the Republican vote was 187-4. On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives approved a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s controversial racial remarks about four Democratic members of Congress.
Trump during a series of Twitter posts in recent days has repeatedly criticised “Democrat Congresswomen” for “spreading hate,” saying people, who complain about the United States should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries from which they came.
The four lawmakers, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, are all US citizens and belong to a minority race.
In a fiercely heated debate ahead of Tuesday’s vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her fellow lawmakers to back the resolution, calling Trump’s tweets “disgraceful” and “racist.”
“Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president’s racist tweets. To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people,” Pelosi said. (UNI)
