The Senate’s top Democrat says US President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly attack in New York City “doesn’t work with New Yorkers” or other Americans.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer says that after Sept. 11, 2001, Republican President George W. Bush united the nation, inviting lawmakers to the White House and promising to work together.
Schumer said Trump is taking “horrible advantage, of a tragedy” and trying “to politicize and divide.
In a tweet, Trump blamed Schumer, saying the attacker came to the United States through a diversity visa program — “a Chuck Schumer beauty.”
Officials said the attacker is an immigrant from Uzbekistan who came to the United States legally in 2010. They haven’t said whether he was admitted through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which covers immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration to the US.
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