INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sunday told unnamed Democratic Congresswomen to "go back" where they came from, prompting senior members of the party to brand him a
"racist" and a xenophobe.It is the latest controversial comment by Trump, who last year reportedly referred to countries in Africa as
"shithole" nations, and who has spoken of "an invasion" of undocumented migrants.In a tweet, Trump referred to "'Progressive' Democrat
Congresswomen," which appeared to be a reference to a group of outspoken relatively young, liberal women, all first-time members of the
House of Representatives.These include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib of
Michigan.Trump did not say whom he was referring to but said they "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total
catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world."He accused the women of "viciously telling the people of the United
States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run."Why don't they go back and help fix the totally
broken and crime infested places from which they came"?Ocasio-Cortez, who was born in New York, has ancestry from Puerto Rico, a US
territory.Tlaib, who was born in Detroit, is the first American of Palestinian descent elected to Congress.Omar, who as a child came to the
United States from war-torn Somalia, is the first black Muslim woman in Congress."That's a racist tweet," Assistant House Speaker Ben Ray
Lujan, the highest-ranking Latino member of Congress, said on "Fox News Sunday.""These are American citizens elected by voters in the United
States of America."House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned her party to avoid the "menace" of liberal policies pushed by Ocasio-Cortez and the
other progressives, if the Democrats hope to beat Trump in the 2020 election.But on Twitter Sunday she criticized Trump's "attack.""I reject
@realDonaldTrump's xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation," she said.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by
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