Sen. Tim Scott asked President Trump to delete his social media post on Friday that portrayed the Obamas as apes , calling it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House." Why it matters: Republicans rarely engage with the backlash to Trump posts. But Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican in the Senate, responded quickly. - Scott, who leads the Senate Republican campaign arm, posted Friday that he was "praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House. The President should remove it." Driving the news: Trump's Thursday post, made at 11:44pm ET, depicts former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes in an AI meme video portraying Trump as King of the Jungle. -…
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Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations and health and humanitarian programs around the world.
President Donald Trump on Thursday again shifted explanations of why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was at a FBI search of a Georgia election office where 2020 ballots were seized.
