Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said President Trump's incendiary tweets about her and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar were a "distraction" created by a "bully."
"I'm dealing with the biggest bully I've ever had to deal with in my lifetime and trying to push back on that, and trying to do the job that we all have been sent here to do, which is centered around the people at home," Tlaib said in an interview with "CBS This Morning" host Gayle King. "This is a distraction."
The four congresswomen, colloquially known as "the Squad," sat down with King on Tuesday for their first interview since the president's tweets. Mr. Trump called on them to "go back" to their countries of origin — even though three of them were born in the U.S. and all of them are citizens.
Shortly after the interview, the House voted to approve a resolution condemning Mr. Trump's tweets, with four Republicans joining every Democrat to denounce the statements. The president, however, has shown no sign of backing down.
"Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don't have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show 'weakness' and fall into their trap," Mr. Trump tweeted on Tuesday.
Several Republicans have defended the president or opted not to say anything about his remarks. In the interview with King, Ocasio-Cortez said Republicans had not done enough to denounce the comments.
"They could not bring themselves to have the basic human decency to vote against the statement that the president made on the floor," Ocasio-Cortez said prior to the final vote.
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