With few exceptions, elected Republican officials replied with silence – or feigned ignorance – the morning after a crowd at a Trump rally in Greenville, North Carolina, goaded by the president, chanted “Send her back! Asked why he did not stop the chant, Trump said, “I think I did” – when in fact, as video of the moment shows, he did nothing to discourage the chant, instead pausing to give the chant room. “I was not happy with it – I disagree with it,” Trump told reporters about the chant. The Republican congressman Jim Jordan, a Trump loyalist from Ohio, told CNN he had missed the “send her back” chants. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo elected Republicans in the US Congress – out of 250 – had condemned the rally chant by Thursday morning.

Source: The Guardian July 18, 2019 16:15 UTC