* Trump once described an attempt to impeach him as a “lynching.” Three of the four were born in the United States. * Trump tweeted that four minority members of the Democratic House caucus should “go back” to the countries they were from. (Trump later said he didn’t hear the question properly and that he had disavowed Duke “the day before at a major conference.”) * Trump initially refused to condemn former KKK official David Duke, who endorsed his presidential campaign. * Trump referred to Elizabeth Warren as “ Pocahontas” amid a controversy about her claims of Native American heritage. * Trump said that a federal judge of Mexican descent couldn’t be impartial about a case because of his supposed animosity about Trump’s plan to build a wall on the southern border. * In his presidential campaign announcement speech in 2015, Trump insisted that Mexico was sending “rapists” who were “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” into the US. Trump has also falsely suggested that Kamala Harris was not eligible to be vice president. * Trump propagated the lie that Barack Obama was not actually born in the United States and therefore was ineligible to be president. * Trump has repeatedly referred to Covid-19 as the “kung flu” and the “China virus.” * Trump decried immigrants coming to the US from “shithole countries” during a meeting with lawmakers in 2018. * After White nationalists provoked a violent clash in 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump said there were “very fine people, on both sides.” Which, well, that is honestly pretty debatable. “I would not have been his vice president if he was.” I don’t believe he’s a racist or a bigot,” said Pence. “I don’t believe Donald Trump is an antisemite. “President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite and a Holocaust denier, a seat at the table and I think he should apologize for it,” Pence said in an interview with NewsNation. Mike Pence on Monday condemned Donald Trump for having dinner with White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, who has voiced a number of antisemitic views of late.īut in so doing, he also sought to rewrite some history.
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