Schumer Blisters Republicans Over Trump Tweets

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) blasted Republicans over the silence with with many have responded to President Trump’s tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to their home countries, The Hill reports.

Schumer said Trump’s comments “drip with racism” and questioned if Republicans weren’t commenting “out of embarrassment or agreement.”

Asked Schumer: “Where are you? When something this serious, this bigoted, this un-American happens? If you’re saying to yourself well, he got us our big tax credit, well, he’s taking regulations off big corporations … we have to go along with this racism? You are making a deal with the devil.”