Republican governor says president has brought 'disgrace to public life'
Donald Trump remains under fire for his racist
tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen to “go back and help fix the
totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”, with the
Republican governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, the latest to break ranks
and attack his “shameful, racist, disgraceful” comments and accuse the
president of bringing “disgrace to public policy and public life”.
"The
president's tweets were shameful, they were racist and... they bring a
tremendous amount of, sort of, disgrace to public policy and public life and I
condemn them all," said Baker.
The
governor appeared to be coming to the defence of Ayanna Pressley specifically,
one of the four members of "The Squad" - along with Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib - and the first black woman to be
elected to the US House from Massachusetts.
Speaking at
the quartet's press conference on Monday night, Pressley urged the American
public not to "take the bait" of the president's dog whistle racism.
Here's a
reminder of the original offending tweets and everything the president has
tweeted since as part of the worst self-inflicted crisis he has found himself
embroiled in since the last one.
