U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Wednesday told President Donald Trump “your racism has been shown” on Twitter after the president suggested that Booker and Joe Biden push policies for low-income homes to “invade” suburban neighborhoods.
Trump said on Twitter that Booker would run a Biden administration program to build low-income housing in suburban neighborhoods after he broke a rule that fired the president, and therefore the ‘suburban housewife’ would vote Republican.
Booker responded to Twitter with one sentence:
“Donored, your racism has been shown.”
Booker added an extra E to the president’s first name after Trump misspelled Booker’s first name (calling him Corey).
It was a follow-up to similar statements Trump made about Booker and Biden last month after the president assassinated an Obama administration policy that requires municipalities that receive federal funds to look after racial discrimination and work to integrate their communities.
“We ended a rule that was a very terrible rule for people in suburbs – in the suburbs,” Trump told reporters at the White House on July 31. “And that rule has long been a very unjust rule and it was going to be made much less by Biden and Cory Booker.
‘It’s a rule that you’re basically building low-income housing and building other forms of housing – also to do with zoning – and destroying people who have lived in suburban communities. For years they have lived there, and they want to destroy their lives and what they have. “
Factcheck.org said the rule that Trump withdrew did not require the construction of low-income housing.
In a New York Times-Siena College poll released in June, 50% of suburban voters rejected Trump’s job performance, with 38% approving.
“Donald Trump’s presidency is melting down after his failed, divisive, unratic leadership cost more than 160,000 American lives, tens of millions of jobs, and the United States left COHID-19 the hardest hit country in the world,” a spokesman said. of Biden campaign Andrew Bates said.
“While struggling to bring the American people apart and distracting the country from its devastating mismanagement with clumsy, bigoted lies, it still discredits itself.”
Trump re-election campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson shot back.
“We already know that Joe Biden thinks ‘you are not black’ if you do not vote for him,” Pierson said. “Senator Booker deliberately ignores Biden’s racist record and the divided, radical housing policies he forced suburban communities.”
“President Trump’s policies have always been focused on improving the lives and economic situations of every American – including when he replaced Joe Biden’s takeover, failed tactics with health care policies on affordable housing, intended to cut bureaucracy and the giving power back to the suburban communities of our nation, ”she said.
During his presidential campaign, Booker proposed the threat of using subsidies for community development blocks and surface transportation surfaces to transform communities into changing zoning laws to encourage the construction of more affordable housing.
Booker, who is running for re-election in the Senate this fall, later used Trump’s tweet to raise money.
“If we succeed this fall, he will not be our president next year – but I plan to go back to the Senate and fight back against all that Trump stands for,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
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