'The Democrats have become an anti-Israel party. They've become an anti-Jewish party,” President Trump told reporters as he left the White House for Alabama and Florida.
President Trump speaks to reporters March 8 before departing the White House to inspect tornado damage in Alabama and spend the weekend at his Florida resort.
The president’s divisive talk suddenly shifted attention in the matter from House Democrats, who’d been openly divided and on the defensive all week over Omar’s comments ascribing dual loyalties to pro-Israel Jews. House Republican leaders had remained mostly quiet, to keep the media focus on Democrats’ infighting. Trump’s rhetoric and the Republican defectors’ “no” votes on the anti-hate resolution muddled the politics of the controversy.
With the new developments, Democrats turned from internal battling to chastising Trump and Republicans again. Critics said her statements rekindled tropes that have been used against Jewish people for centuries. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat, sought to devise a response that would satisfy Jewish Democrats and others outraged by Omar’s comments as well as those, including other minority Democrats, concerned about singling out Omar given Trump’s frequently divisive rhetoric and possibly enabling a backlash of Islamophobia.
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