众议员拉希达·特拉伊卜(Rashida Tlaib)周二接受采访时，指责唐纳德·特朗普总统利用对她和其他三名进步民主党人的种族主义攻击作为转移公众对庇护法改革注意力的策略。同一天，在视频再现了这位国会女议员抗议他2016年竞选演讲的画面后，总统称她为“疯狂的疯子”。
在采访中真正的底特律播客中，特拉伊布认为特朗普最近对她和其他三名所谓“小队”成员——来自纽约的亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯、来自马萨诸塞州的艾安娜·普雷斯利和来自明尼苏达州的伊尔汉·奥马尔——的攻击是“分散我们的注意力”，而他“在幕后试图改变庇护法”
“他也在幕后试图通过解除对[环境保护局的管制来剥夺有色人种社区的权利，”特拉伊卜说，并补充说特朗普还试图在全国人口普查中纳入公民部分。"现在正在做一些事情来分散我们的注意力。"
特拉伊布发表上述言论之际，特朗普也在周二称她为“疯狂的疯子”，此前有一段视频显示，这名女议员抗议特朗普在2016年总统竞选期间的一次演讲。
本周早些时候，该视频由各保守网站重新发布，显示特拉伊布大喊“你们疯了！”当时的总统候选人在底特律经济俱乐部发表了演讲。
特朗普今天早些时候在华盛顿特区的美国转折点会议上发表演讲时告诉年轻的保守派，“今天早上我刚从密歇根看了特拉伊卜”。"她不可能代表密歇根人民的价值观。"
“今天早上我看着她。她很恶毒。她就像一个疯狂的疯子，”总统继续说道。“她开始尖叫，这不是一个正常的人，伙计们，当你看到那个。这就是我们面临的问题。”
特拉伊卜新闻秘书埃德里安娜·萨拉扎确认的这位女议员在告诉当时的候选人“我们的孩子应该得到比[更好的他的]仇恨言论”后被赶出了活动
特朗普上周末在一系列推文中敦促Tlaib和其他三名进步国会女议员(都是新生议员和有色人种)“回去帮助修复他们来的完全破碎和犯罪猖獗的地方”，这加剧了他与她们之间的持续不和。
尽管总统建议立法者都是外国出生的，但除了一个人，其他人都出生在美国。国会女议员奥马尔出生在索马里的摩加迪沙，在她的家人逃离祖国后，她还是个孩子的时候就搬到了美国。
2019年7月22日，美国众议员拉希达·特拉伊卜在密歇根州底特律市COBO中心举行的全国有色人种协进会第110届全国代表大会开幕全体会议上发言。特拉伊卜周二表示，特朗普对她和其他三名民主党人的种族主义攻击只是转移公众注意力的一种分散策略，目的是转移公众对庇护法和其他事情的注意力。
RASHIDA TLAIB SAYS DONALD TRUMP IS TRYING 'TO DISTRACT' US WITH ATTACKS AS PRESIDENT CALLS HER A 'CRAZED LUNATIC'
Representative Rashida Tlaib, in an interview on Tuesday, accused President Donald Trump of using his racist attacks against her and three other progressive Democrats as a tactic to distract the public from changes to asylum laws. On the same day, the president called the congresswoman a "crazed lunatic" after video resurfaced of her protesting one of his 2016 campaign speeches.
In an interview with the Authentically Detroit podcast, Tlaib argued that Trump's recent attack of her and three other members of the so-called "Squad" — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts and Ilhan Omar from Minnesota — is "to distract us" while he is "behind the scenes trying to change asylum laws."
"He's also behind the scenes trying to disenfranchise communities of color by deregulating the [Environmental Protection Agency]," Tlaib said, adding that Trump also attempted to include a citizenship section in the nationwide census. "There are things being done right now to distract us."
Tlaib's comments came as Trump, also on Tuesday, called her a "crazed lunatic" after a video surfaced of the congresswoman protesting one of his speeches during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The video, resurfaced by various conservative websites earlier this week, showed Tlaib yelling "You guys are crazy!" to crowds of people as the then-presidential candidate delivered a speech at the Detroit Economic Club.
"I watched just this morning this Tlaib from Michigan," Trump told young conservatives during his address at a Turning Point USA conference in Washington, D.C. earlier today. "There is no way she stands for the values of the people of Michigan."
"I watched her this morning. She's vicious. She's like a crazed lunatic," the president continued. "She starts screaming, and this is not a sane person, folks, when you look at that. And this is what we're up against."
Tlaib's press secretary Adrienne Salazar confirmed that the congresswoman was thrown out of the event after she told the-then candidate "our children deserve better than [his] hateful rhetoric."
Trump escalated his ongoing feud with Tlaib and the three other progressive congresswomen, all freshman lawmakers and all women of color, last weekend when he urged them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," in a series of tweets.
Despite the president's suggestion that the lawmakers were all foreign-born, all but one were born in America. Congresswoman Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and moved to the U.S. as a child after her family fled from their home nation.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks at the opening plenary session of the NAACP 110th National Convention at the COBO Center on July 22, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. Tlaib on Tuesday suggested that Trump's racist attacks against her and three other Democrats was merely part of a distraction tactic to divert the public's attention away from changes to asylum laws and other things.
