The president has been lobbing racist attacks at the first-year lawmakers since last weekend, and the Washington Post reported that aides had supplied the background research to urge Trump to question their patriotism and political ideas, rather than calling on them to leave the country.
“The Amazon Washington Post front page story yesterday was total Fake News,” Trump tweeted Monday morning. “They said ‘Advisors wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four Congresswomen.’”
The president then accidentally mocked his public persona as a man who does not read, as he attempted to push back against the reports.
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