After using Twitter to personally attack four duly elected congresswomen and suggest they “go back to where they came from,” Donald Trump then laid into them during a rally in North Carolina, especially targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. The crowd — which by Trump’s account was a “record crowd” — started chanting “Send her back, send her back.”
Apparently under significant pressure, even from his own family, he tried to backtrack the next day and say a) he did not support it, b) jumped in “quickly” to stop it and c) it was the media’s fault anyway.