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US politics live: Donald Trump sparks flood of abuse for governor’s family by calling him ‘retarded’
Donald Trump’s unrepentant use of an outdated slur to slam one of his political opponents has had vile consequences.
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Donald Trump is furious with an allegedly corrupt politician he pardoned late last week, who has now announced he’s going to remain a Democrat instead of switching his allegiance to the President’s party.
Congressman Henry Cuellar, who represents a district in Texas, was all set to be prosecuted for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes before the President intervened. But Mr Cuellar has signalled that he intends to run for re-election as a Democrat.
Mr Trump appears to have been labouring under the impression that Mr Cuellar would become a Republican in exchange for the pardon.
“Can you imagine??? The Democrats, under the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, who always use extreme force and jail time to destroy their political opponent, wanted to put Congressman Henry Cuellar, and his wife, Imelda, in PRISON, for 15 years, which I predicted these Radical Left Lunatics would do – And they never stopped wanting to fulfill this evil quest!” Mr Trump wrote on social media.
“The Dems mercilessly went after Henry with everything they had! They were looking to destroy him, his lovely wife, his two young daughters, and anyone close to them. When the Democrats overwhelmingly lost the 2024 Presidential Election, and power with it, they regardless, did everything they could to keep going after the Cuellar family.
“The Dems were vicious, and all because Henry strongly wanted, correctly BORDER SECURITY!
“Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be ‘running’ for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat, continuing to work with the same Radical Left Scum that just weeks before wanted him and his wife to spend the rest of their lives in Prison – And probably still do!
“Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like. Oh well, next time, no more Mr Nice guy!”
Elsewhere, Mr Trump’s dislike for a specific community of immigrants, from Somalia, is being connected to a bizarre racist blow-up in Wisconsin, where a worker has been fired after erupting at a pair of customers.
Crystal Wilsey, an employee at Cinnabon, pulled out the n-word as the customers filmed her.
“B**** a** n*****. I am racist, and you are a n*****,” she said.
“You are an idiot,” one of the customers shot back.
“I am racist, and I’ll say that to the whole entire world,” said Ms Wilsey.
“Don’t be disrespectful!”
The prelude to the video apparently involved one of the customers requesting more caramel on their pecan cinnamon roll.
Mr Trump has been going after Somali immigrants in Minnesota, which borders Wisconsin, over a welfare scandal that saw some members of the community scam money from the state government. The President has, among other quite strident things, called Governor Tim Walz “retarded” for his handling of the matter.
He’s also called for a Democratic Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, to be stripped of her US citizenship and “thrown out of the country” because she was born in Somalia. She moved to the US in the 1990s and has been a citizen since 2000.
Read on for the latest updates.
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