‘Be quiet!’: Trump claims Beto O’Rourke uses a ‘phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage’

Washington Post logoHours before President Trump heads to El Paso on a mission to “help heal” the city after a mass shooting apparently motivated by anti-immigrant hatred, he lashed out at former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic presidential candidate and native son, for supposedly changing his name to appeal to Hispanic voters.

“Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the Democrat Primary, should respect the victims & law enforcement — & be quiet!” Trump tweeted just before midnight on Tuesday.

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Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the Democrat Primary, should respect the victims & law enforcement – & be quiet!

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The attack, which raises the discredited claim that O’Rourke adopted a Spanish-language nickname as a political tactic, struck a jarring tone barely 24 hours after Trump called for bipartisan cooperation in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend that claimed at least 31 lives.

View the complete August 7 article by Tim Elfrink on The Washington Post website here.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Actually, which one it was depends on what street you stood on during a chilly winter evening in El Paso, Texas.

On one side of town, raucous crowds gathered at the El Paso County Coliseum. With American flags and banners reading “Finish the Wall” displayed above him, President Donald Trump hailed his “big, beautiful” border wall as the reason for El Paso’s low crime rate.

View the complete June 3 article by Sasha Pezenik on the ABC News website here.