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Rashida Tlaib lashes out at Ivanka over her response to El Paso and Dayton: 'Your prayers aren't working, try checking your dad on his tweets'

The member of The Squad thought the president's daughter's tweet about destroying white supremacy was a bit too rich, and asked her to check out her dad's tweets
UPDATED AUG 5, 2019

Freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib took to Twitter on Sunday to lash out at President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump over her response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which claimed the lives of 31 people. 

Tlaib, a member of the popular progressive 'Squad', slammed Trump, saying that he "incites violence" with his rhetoric. The comment from the Democratic Representative of Michigan came shortly after Ivanka had slammed the mass shootings and condemned white supremacy in her tweet.

"As our nation mourns the senseless loss of life in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, and prays for the victims and their loved ones, we must also raise our voices in rejection of these heinous and cowardly acts of hate, terror and violence," Ivanka wrote, adding: "White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed," she added in an additional tweet.



 

Tlaib, however, was having none of it and said: "Your prayers aren't working. Try checking your dad on his tweets. 251 mass shootings in the U.S. in 216 days. He incites violence every day w/ his hate agenda & racism. More people are dying because he fails to fight white supremacist terrorists."

President Trump's remarks on immigration, ever since he launched his 2016 campaign, have been branded as racist by critics. The president also came under heavy scrutiny over his recent controversial tweets about four congresswomen, including Tlaib, as he said that they should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." He made the statement despite all the four Congresswomen being American citizens. The other Congresswomen he was referring included the other members of the Squad — Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley.



 

The Republican has also been slammed by progressives for failing to speak out against white supremacists, despite insisting that he is "the least racist person there is anywhere in the world." Multiple critics also pointed out how condemnation of white supremacy was missing from his reaction to the El Paso shooting. 

Tlaib, in her tweets, also cited gun death statistics compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, which notes that mass shootings have increased nearly 13 percent this year from 222 incidents that occurred by August 14, 2018.

GVA, run by researcher Mark Bryant, defined mass shootings as shootings in which four or more people are injured or killed in a single incident, not including the shooter.  

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