Schumer: Trump engaged in ‘open and bald-faced bigotry’

Published July 15, 2019 8:14pm ET



Democratic leaders Monday stepped up criticism of President Trump’s attacks on four minority ultra-liberal House Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Schumer said Trump’s Sunday tweet calling for the freshmen to “go back” to “places from which they came from” is “one of the oldest and crudest tropes to malign nonwhite Americans.”

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