Tlaib strikes back at Trump for telling progressive congresswomen to ‘go back’ to where they were born

President Donald Trump spent another Sunday morning furiously tweeting, including bigoted attacks against progressive members of Congress, although not by name.

U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) appeared Saturday on a Netroots Nation panel in Philadelphia. Tlaib repeated her call to “impeach the MF’er.”

The group of progressive Democrats, which also includes U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), also have clashed with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who does not support impeaching Trump. Tlaib has led the fight for hearings.

Trump unleashed three tweets on Sunday interjecting himself into the dispute, in which he said the progressive lawmakers “came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world.

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” he added. “… These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough.”

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Tlaib was born in Detroit, Pressley was born in Cincinnati, Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York City and Omar was born in Somalia.

Tlaib’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but the first-term congresswoman fired off a succinct tweet: “Want a response to a lawless & complete failure of a President? He is the crisis. His dangerous ideology is the crisis. He needs to be impeached.”

Want a response to a lawless & complete failure of a President?

He is the crisis.
His dangerous ideology is the crisis.
He needs to be impeached.

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 14, 2019

A number of political observers, including New York Times politics reporter Astead Wesley, called out the historically racist attack.

Yes but it's impt to note the historic context of the "go back to" insult is racial. People would tell black people to go "back to Africa" whose families have lived here for generations. https://t.co/b6WisTf84i

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) July 14, 2019

Several political figures came to the congresswomen’s defense, including U.S. Rep. Justin Amash (I-Cascade Twp.), who also supports impeachment proceedings. Amash called the tweets “racist and disgusting.”

To tell these American citizens (most of whom were born here) to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came” is racist and disgusting. https://t.co/sIAqg8bTIb

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) July 14, 2019

Also coming to Tlaib’s defense was Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who previously told the Advance that she’s seen how much bigotry is directed at Tlaib on social media when she’s been tagged in posts.

The AG ended by referencing her infamous 2018 ad: “Don’t you long for the days when the most upsetting thing you read about was a candidate for state AG talking about the importance of not showing people their penis in the workplace?”

Don’t you long for the days when the most upsetting thing you read about was a candidate for state AG talking about the importance of not showing people their penis in the workplace?

— Dana Nessel (@dananessel) July 14, 2019