A top White House aide defended President Trump’s disparaging tweets about an influential black Democratic congressman.
about an influential black Democratic congressman and his Baltimore district as a justified response to the lawmaker’s criticism of administration border policies and investigations into the president.
“When the president hears lies like that, he’s going to fight back,” Mulvaney told “Fox News Sunday.” Trump has sought to put racial polarization at the center of his appeal to his base of voters, tapping into anxieties about demographic and cultural changes in the nation on the belief that the polarized country he leads will simply choose sides over issues like race.
Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, said Trump was “right to raise” the challenges faced in Cummings’ district at the same time while Cummings and other Democrats are “chasing down” the Russia investigation undertaken by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and pursuing “this bizarre impeachment crusade.”
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