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U.S. President Trump speaks about U.S. Representative Omar at campaign rally in Greenville
- President Donald Trump's racist tweets directed at four progressive Democrats, who are women of color, have ignited a firestorm of criticism.
- But the tweets didn't occur in a vacuum. It was the president's commentary on a battle between the progressive Democrats and the Democratic leadership.
- Trump's tweets, his subsequent response, and a controversial, xenophobic chant that occurred at one of his rallies on July 17 are a sign of what's to come along the 2020 campaign trail.
- Here's a timeline of the chaotic series of events surrounding Trump's tweets.
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