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Trump whips up crowd with more attacks on Rep. Omar during N.C. campaign rally, supporters roar ‘send her back’

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    President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

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    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., condemns remarks by President Trump as Schumer speaks to reporters following a Democratic policy meeting, at the Capitol on July 16, 2019, Washington D.C.

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., center, walks down the steps of...

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    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., center, walks down the steps of the Capitol on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C. after the House of Representatives, with a Democratic majority, passed a resolution along largely party lines with 235 Democrats and only four Republicans voting for the nonbinding resolution that "... condemns President Donald Trump's racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color by saying that our fellow Americans who are immigrants, and those who may look to the President like immigrants, should "go back" to other countries, by referring to immigrants and asylum seekers as "invaders," and by saying that Members of Congress who are immigrants (or those of our colleagues who are wrongly assumed to be immigrants) do not belong in Congress or in the United States of America."

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks as, from left, Rep. Rashida...

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    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks as, from left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., listen during a news conference at the Capitol on Monday, July 15, 2019, in Washington D.C. President Trump on Monday intensified his incendiary comments about the four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don't like things going on in America.

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    Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks with reporters at the White House on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C.  Conway defended Trump's racist weekend remarks on Twitter.

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    From left, Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., respond to base remarks by President Donald Trump after he called for four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their "broken" countries, as he exploited the nation's glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol on Monday, July 15, 2019, in Washington D.C. All four congresswomen are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress.

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    Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., center, speaks alongside Democratic members of Congress during a press conference before the House vote to condemn President Trump's recent racist comments directed at four members of Congress on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C.

  • Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks as, from left, Rep. Ayanna...

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    Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks as, from left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listen during a news conference at the Capitol on Monday, July 15, 2019, in Washington D.C. President Trump on Monday intensified his incendiary comments about the four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don't like things going on in America. They fired back at what they called his "xenophobic bigoted remarks" and said it was time for impeachment.

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    White House adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump attends a cabinet meeting as President Trump, left, speaks at the White House on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C.

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    From left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their "broken" countries, during a news conference at the Capitol on Monday, July 15, 2019, in Washington D.C. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S.

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    Counselor to the President talks to reporters outside of the West Wing on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C. Conway questions one reporter asking him what his ethnicity is before announcing her ethnicity is Irish and Italian.

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    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., walks to the House Chamber before the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Trump for his recent "racist comments" about four Democratic congresswomen on July 16, 2019, Washington D.C.

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    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives for a closed-door session with her caucus before a vote on a resolution condemning what she called "racist comments" by President Trump at the Capitol on July 16, 2019, Washington D.C. Trump's remarks were directed at Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

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    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens as members of the Senate Republican leadership speak to the media after their weekly policy luncheon on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C. Sen. McConnell refused to answer a reporter's question on Tuesday whether it would be racist to say his Taiwanese immigrant wife should "go back to where she came from," as President Trump said about four Democratic representatives, three of whom were born in the U.S.

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    From left, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., take turns speaking to reporters prior to a vote called by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to condemn what Pelosi called "racist comments" by President Trump directed at Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, at the Capitol on July 16, 2019, Washington D.C.

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    Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., walks down the steps of the Capitol after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning President Trump's recent racist comments about four Democratic congresswomen, including Tlaib, on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C.

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., center,...

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    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., center, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., right, testify before the House Oversight Committee hearing on family separation and detention centers, on July 12, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. President Trump says the detention centers are "well run and clean" in contradiction to a report from the Office of Inspector General Department of Homeland Security, "Concerns about ICE Detainee Treatment and Care at Four Detention Facilities," on June 3, 2019, that notes squalid conditions at all four inspected facilities. On Sunday, July 14, 2019, President Trump unleashes a tweet attack on four Democratic congresswomen saying, "So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." Three of the representatives were born in the U.S.; all four are U.S. citizens.

  • Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., who was born in Poland, stands...

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    Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., who was born in Poland, stands alongside Democratic members of Congress during a press conference before the House vote to condemn President Trump's recent racist comments directed at four members of Congress on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C.

  • From left, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., House Republican...

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    From left, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., take turns speaking to reporters prior to a vote called by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to condemn what Pelosi called "racist comments" by President Donald Trump directed at Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, at the Capitol on July 16, 2019, Washington D.C. The GOP leaders dismissed the criticism of Trump, calling it "politics" and "one more chance to go after our President" by the Democrats.

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    President Trump, left, talks with journalists during a Cabinet meeting with Acting Secretary of Defense Richard Spencer, center; Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, right, and others at the White House on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C. Trump and members of his administration addressed a wide variety of subjects, including immigration, for more than an hour.

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Trump’s caustic comments against four Democratic congresswomen of color, which have been widely condemned as racist, sent his supporters at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday into a frenzied cry to ‘send her back’ after he mentioned Rep. Ilhan Omar.

“These left-wing ideologues see our nation as a force of evil,” President Trump said at the rally in Greenville. “They want to demolish our constitution, weaken our military (and) eliminate the values that built this magnificent country.”

Keeping up his attacks that began several days ago, Trump took aim at Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

Omar, a Somali-American and one of two Muslim women in Congress, received the worst of the crowd’s reaction.

Trump again raised claims about Omar that have been debunked.

“Omar laughed that Americans speak of al Qaeda in a menacing tone,” Trump said, referencing an interview Omar gave in 2013. “You don’t say America with this intensity. You say al Qaeda makes you proud. Al Qaeda makes you proud. You don’t speak that way about America.”

Trump also alleged that Omar has a history of “launching vicious anti-Semitic screeds.”

Omar responded on Twitter with a poem by Maya Angelou: “You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

On Sunday morning, Trump suggested in a series of tweets that the four progressive congresswomen, all of whom are U.S. citizens as the Constitution requires, “go back” to their home countries. The House voted to condemn those comments as racist on Tuesday.

He defended his statements on Tuesday, tweeting, “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!”