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Trump on Twitter

July 16, 2019 | 10:27pm
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Trump on Twitter
July 16, 2019

US President Donald Trump strongly denies accusations of racism after launching a xenophobic attack on a group of minority Democratic congresswomen.

"Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don't have a Racist bone in my body!" tweets Trump, as US lawmakers prepared to vote on a resolution condemning his "racist comments."

 

 

— AFP

July 15, 2019

Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May calls US President Donald Trump's tweets telling progressive Democrat congresswomen to "go back" where they came from "completely unacceptable."

"Her view is that the language which was used to refer to the women was completely unacceptable," May's spokesman tells reporters. — AFP

August 20, 2018

Trump insists Sunday that his White House counsel isn't a "RAT" like the Watergate-era White House attorney who turned on Richard Nixon, and he blasted the ongoing Russia investigation as "McCarthyism."

Trump, in a series of angry tweets, denounced a New York Times story that his White House counsel, Don McGahn, has been cooperating extensively with the special counsel team investigating Russian election meddling and potential collusion with Trump's Republican campaign.

"The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type 'RAT,'" Trump wrote, misspelling the word "counsel," as he often does. "But I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn't have to. I have nothing to hide......"

The New York Times said it stands by its story. — AP

August 15, 2018

US President Donald Trump unloaded on former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman Tuesday, calling her a "crazed, crying lowlife" and "that dog," as a clash rooted in the reality star's accusations of racism focused new attention on his frequent disparagement of prominent African-Americans.

Manigault Newman, who has painted a damning picture of Trump and alleged there is a videotape of him using a racial slur, told The Associated Press she is not going away. 

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders insists that the president's insults were not racially motivated, saying: "This has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out someone's integrity." — AP

August 11, 2018

 A free speech group says President Donald Trump is still blocking dozens of people from his Twitter account despite a court's ruling that doing so violates the First Amendment.

Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute sent a letter to the Justice Department listing 41 people it says are still blocked from the @realDonaldTrump account.

The letter says nearly all of the accounts were blocked after sending tweets critical of Trump or his policies.

U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled in May that people have a right to reply directly to politicians like Trump who use Twitter accounts as public forums for official business.

Buchwald didn't directly order Trump to unblock users, but he quickly restored access for the seven people suing over the practice.

Trump is appealing the ruling. — AP

President Donald Trump cannot legally block Twitter users who disagree with him, a federal judge rules Thursday (Manila time) in a case with potentially far-reaching implications for social media use by public officials.

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