For months, Trump has launched openly racist attacks on Elaine Chao, a former member of his Cabinet and wife of Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell. Fellow Republicans have mostly met Trump's taunts with silence, but now Chao is speaking out. Full story:
Elaine Chao blanketed the airwaves, especially with local media, talking about her immigration story and the promise America holds for others from far-off places. | Alex Brandon/AP PhotoOver the past several months, the leading Republican presidential candidate has launched a series of racist attacks on the wife of the Republican Party’s Senate leader, a woman who once served in his Cabinet.
Chao’s statement is an extremely rare case of the former Transportation Secretary wading into the political thicket that her former boss has laid around her since the end of his administration. It suggests that discomfort with Trump’s anti-Asian rhetoric has reached a new level amid several high-profile shootings targeting Asian Americans.
the remarks. Other Republicans have dismissed the attacks as Trump just being Trump. The former president “likes to give people nicknames,” Sen.Chao immigrated to the U.S. when she was a child from Taiwan and is one of six daughters of Ruth Mulan Chu and James S.C. Chao, the founder of the Foremost Group, a large shipping company based in New York.
“I stand by my man — both of them,” Chao told reporters at Trump Tower following a 2017 spat between Trump and McConnell.
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