Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s attack on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive allies by asking a reporter confronting her on the matter about his ethnicity.
“To which countries was he referring?” Andrew Feinberg, a White House reporter with Breakfast Media, asked Conway on Tuesday about Trump telling the progressive congresswomen that they should “go back” to their home countries.
“What’s your ethnicity?” the counselor to the president asked Feinberg.
“My own ethnicity is not relevant to the question I’m asking,” Feinberg responded.
“No, no it is. Because you’re asking, he said ‘originally,'” Conway said. “And you know everything he’s said since.”
Conway added her ancestors were originally from Ireland and Italy.
Conway’s comments follow Trump’s attack on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
“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,” Trump said Sunday on Twitter.
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!” he added.
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……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
The four congresswomen responded Monday evening with a press conference in which they called Trump’s comments racist, xenophobic, and supportive of white nationalists.
