MSNBC’s Mitchell: None of Trump’s Targets Are Socialists

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell defended four Democratic congresswomen attacked by President Donald Trump by falsely claiming that none of them were socialists on Thursday.

In a Wednesday speech, Trump attacked by name Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D. Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) and defended a tweet insinuating that the four minority women should "go back" to their country of origin. Only Omar is actually an immigrant, the other three are American-born citizens.

MSNBC covered live a press conference from Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defending the president, in which he said Trump was waging "a battle over a socialist issue and the socialist Democrats, that's one that he's taken up even in the State of the Union, he promised that this country will never have socialism here."

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