U.S President Donald Trump is being criticized for staying silent for 13 seconds as a crowd at his North Carolina campaign rally chanted “send her back.” His supporters were calling for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to be deported. As Jackson Proskow explains, now Trump is trying to distance himself from the chants.
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