Several Republican senators — facing the Capitol Hill press corps in-person for the first time since news broke of Trump's dinner — denounced the meeting.
: "[H]as [House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy] condemned this yet? Or nah?" Both are vocal Trump critics leaving office in January., told Axios of the dinner: "I am appalled."
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement to Axios: "Republicans who continue to remain silent become complicit in legitimizing bigotry and hate when the leader of their own party mainstreams fringe white nationalists and antisemites."condemned antisemitic comments "I don’t give a &$#! what some republicans are saying off the record about Trump dining with antisemites,"
Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel said in a statement: "As I had repeatedly said, white supremacy, neo-Nazism, hate speech and bigotry are disgusting and do not have a home in the Republican Party."Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called antisemitism a "cancer" in aresponded more directly
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