{"id":6695,"date":"2019-07-17T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:41:47","slug":"us-house-condemns-trumps-racist-attack-on-congresswomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6695","title":{"rendered":"US House condemns Trump&#8217;s racist attack on Congresswomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">\u00a0<\/a>US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump&#8217;s racist tweets against four Democratic congresswomen of colour. It was a\u00a0symbolic measure aimed at shaming Trump and his fellow Republicans who stood by him.<\/p>\n<p>The House resolution passed by a vote of 240-187 with only four Republicans joining all Democrats and one Independent in favour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world is watching. They are shocked and dismayed because it seems we have lost our way as a proud and dignified people,&#8221;a representative John Lewis, a Democrat and civil rights leader said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump did not explicitly name the women &#8211; all four of whom are US citizens &#8211; in his initial Twitter tirade, but the context made a clear link to the four Democratic congresswomen, who are known as The Squad.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans defended Trump\u2019s tweets, like Tom McClintock of California, who said the president was commenting on the patriotism of the congresswomen, not their race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump&#8217;s racist tweets against four Democratic congresswomen of colour. It was a\u00a0symbolic measure aimed at shaming Trump and his fellow Republicans who stood by him. The House resolution passed by a vote of 240-187 with only four Republicans joining all Democrats and one Independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}