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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"> <span style="color: #999999;"><em><strong>&#8220;You know what? We&#8217;ll send him back home to Kenya or wherever it is. We&#8217;ll send him back home&#8221;</strong></em></span></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>US Rep. Mark Meadows during a campaign stop in 2012, lamented the state of the nation &#8211; Barack Obama, first Black elected US president, was running for re-election at the time.</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Meadows was shown vowing to deport Obama &#8216;home to Kenya&#8217; in 2012 clips that resurfaced after heated exchange amid Michael Cohen hearing on Wednesday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The Tea Party GOP politician had protested vehemently the characterization of his antics as racist by fellow congresswoman Rashida Tliab [D-MI], in a heated exchange on Wednesday</strong></span></h6>
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<div><span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> <img class="alignnone wp-image-309269" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Mark-Meadows-1-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="686" height="457" /><strong>&#8216;I&#8217;m no racist!&#8217;: U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows [R-NC] berates Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, who was testifying before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill February 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. </strong></span></div>
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<div>&#8216;Here&#8217;s Mark Meadows, who just sidetracked the entire House Oversight Committee to assure him he&#8217;s not racist,&#8217; was posted on twitter by a user hours after a theatrical performance by GOP US Rep. Mark Meadows on Wednesday at the Michael Cohen hearing.</div>
<div>Hours after Rep. Mark Meadows defended himself against suggestions of racism during a fiery exchange with Rep Rashida Tlaib, a pair of old clips of the North Carolina congressman vowing to send former President Obama “home to Kenya or wherever it is” resurfaced online.<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ag9hQof_VSk" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><br />
<strong>&#8220;You know what? We&#8217;ll send him back home to Kenya or wherever it is. We&#8217;ll send him back home.&#8221;</strong></div>
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<div>During a campaign stop in 2012, Meadows stood in front of a group of people — a “Tea Party Express” bus in the background — and lamented the state of the nation. Obama, first elected to the White House in 2008, was running for re-election at the time.<br />
“We’re going to take back our country. 2012 is the time we’re going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is,” he says in a recorded clip of the event. “We’re going to do it!”</div>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-309281" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Rashida-Tliab-1-300x270.png" alt="" width="691" height="622" />Heated exchange erupted when Rep. Rashida Tlaib [D-MI] questioning of Trump&#8217;s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, suggested that Rep. Mark Meadows [R-NC]</strong> bringing<strong> a black woman who used to work for Trump to combat claims that the President is racist, was itself racist</strong></h6>
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Then a candidate for Congress, the North Carolina Republican clarified his remarks during an interview with <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/north-carolina-candidate-appears-to-flirt-with-birtherism" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roll Call</a> in an article titled “Candidate Appears to Flirt with Bitherism.”<br />
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a non-issue,&#8221; he said.<br />
&#8220;Obviously bringing it back is probably a poor choice of words on my part more than anything else. I believe he&#8217;s an American citizen and I believe, in my district, he is going to lose overwhelmingly.&#8221;</div>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en"><strong>&#8220;2012 is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is&#8221; &#8211; Mark Meadows, circa 2012 <a href="https://t.co/90L1xnWf6v">pic.twitter.com/90L1xnWf6v</a>, was posted by Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/stevemorris__/status/1100881913756176386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><strong>February 27, 2019 </strong></a></p>
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<div>Obama, who was born in Hawaii, faced repeated accusations that he was not born in the country throughout his time in office,&#8217;Fake News&#8217; once perpetuated by President Trump.<br />
Meadows on Thursday rejected the idea that his 2012 comments proved that he was a racist.<br />
“Anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body,” he told <a href="https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1101156482232524800" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNN</a> when asked about the clips.<br />
The video was shared by critics and left-leaning commentators following Michael Cohen’s testimony in front of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday.</div>
<div>Meadows brought Housing and Urban development official Lynne Patton, Cohen’s former friend and longtime Trump ally, to the proceedings in response to the former fixer’s claims that the President was racist.</div>
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<strong>Mark Meadows flirts with Birtherism at 2012 Tea Party conference</strong></div>
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<div>“I asked Lynne to come today in her personal capacity to actually shed some light,” Meadows said while Patton stood silently behind him. “She says that as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Ala., that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist.<br />
Tlaib took issue with the move during her allotted time for questioning, calling it “insensitive” to “use a black woman as a prop.”<br />
“As a person of color in this committee, that is how I felt at that moment and I wanted to express that. I’m saying that itself is a racist act,” she said.<br />
“Just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them, does not mean they aren’t racist.”<br />
Meadows exploded at the suggestion, holding up his niece and nephew of color and his friendship with Oversight Chairman Elijah E. Cummings as evidence of his open-mindedness.<br />
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At one point it seemed Tlaib’s comments had Meadows near tears.<br />
Tlaib in an interview with CNN Thursday, said everyone was taken aback by Patton’s presence at the hearing.<br />
“I think all of us, I mean, even folks kind of gasped when that actually happened,” she said. “I think if we want to talk about race in this country, that was not the way to do it.”<br />
When asked whether she believed Meadows to be racist, the Michigan Democrat said it was not up to her to make such a call.<br />
“Look, I feel like that act was, and that’s up for the American people to decide whether he is or not,” she said.</div>
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Racist OR Not? Rep. Mark Meadows vows to send Obama ‘home to Kenya’ in 2012 clips resurfaced after heated exchange during Michael Cohen hearing
