WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday morning promoted a photoshopped picture of Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi carrying a turban
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday morning promoted a photoshopped picture of Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi carrying a turban and a head scarf in entrance of an Iranian flag, claiming it confirmed “the corrupted Dems making an attempt their greatest to return to the Ayatollah’s rescue #NancyPelosiFakeNews.”
The retweeted image was essentially the most excessive model of a sentiment that Mr. Trump spent the morning advancing by retweeting criticism of Ms. Pelosi, who stated the killing risked a “harmful escalation of violence” and was primarily based on questionable intelligence, with the president making an attempt to recommend she was a supporter of the Iranian authorities.
The president’s barrage of Twitter posts focusing on her seemed to be an try and undercut her credibility the identical week she is predicted to ship two articles of impeachment towards Mr. Trump to the Senate. The tweet was additionally a reminder of the way in which Mr. Trump has harnessed fears of Muslims and terrorism for his personal political functions prior to now.
Responding on Twitter, Mr. Schumer asked, “President Trump: How low are you able to go?”
Mr. Trump and the Republican Nationwide Committee particularly focused Ms. Pelosi for a press release she made on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, when requested whether or not she supported anti-government demonstrations there which have emerged after Iran shot down of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after it took off from Tehran.
Ms. Pelosi stated there have been “completely different the reason why individuals are on the street,” noting that the present protesters had been reacting to Iran’s army admitting it by chance shot down the Ukrainian airliner. She didn’t immediately reply a query about whether or not it could be a “good factor in the event that they introduced the regime down.”
Throughout Ms. Pelosi’s interview with George Stephanopoulos, she additionally stated that the Trump administration had not been “straight with the Congress of the US” in its explanations for why it determined to focus on Trump Basic Suleimani when it did.
Mr. Trump spent the weekend expressing help on-line for the individuals of Iran calling for political and financial change, who participated within the largest standard protests within the nation in additional than 10 years.
On Monday morning, Mr. Trump lauded the protesters for supporting the US. “Wow! The great Iranian protesters refused to step on, or in any approach denigrate, our Nice American Flag,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “It was placed on the road to ensure that them to trample it, and so they walked round it as an alternative. Huge progress!”
A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.