Kevin McCarthy: It's 'unfair' to hold Trump accountable for 'send her back' chants
by Naomi Lim
| July 18, 2019 01:07 PM
President Trump made the right decision to move on with his speech when "send her back" chants broke out at a campaign rally overnight, according to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
"You want to dislike the president so much, you're going to accuse him of trying to do something he did not do. He moved on in the speech, he never joined in in it, and you want to try to hold him accountable for something in a big audience?" the California Republican asked reporters on Thursday. "I think that's an unfair position."
McCarthy, a Trump ally, denied GOP lawmakers were being hypocritical in criticizing the chants, which he said were started by a small group in the crowd attending the event in Greenville, North Carolina, while refusing to call out the president for his "go back" tweets. The leader praised the president's reaction and then contrasted it with the House Democrats' lack of response to members of their own conference introducing a resolution this week reaffirming the right to support the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
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