‘Crazed lunatic’: Trump says Tlaib ‘not a sane person’

President Trump continued his criticism of Rep. Rashida Tlaib by saying he had seen a video of her from 2016 where she looked like a “crazed lunatic.”

“There’s no way she stands for the values of the people of Michigan. But I watched her this morning. She’s vicious, she’s like a crazed lunatic,” Trump said Tuesday at a Turning Point USA event. “She’s screaming. This before she got into Congress. Who elected her? She’s screaming like a total lunatic at one of our rallies. It’s like I’m giving a little rally, and she starts screaming. This is not a sane person, folks.”


Video from 2016 resurfaced this week of the screaming Michigan Democrat being forcibly removed from a 2016 Trump event.

A bystander can be heard yelling, “You’re an animal!” and “Get a job!” as two security officials drag Tlaib from the event.


Trump started a war of words with Tlaib after calling for her and some other liberal congresswomen to “go back” to their home countries.


Tlaib, 43, responded by calling Trump a “racist president” and saying she would “fight back.”

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