July 20, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - US President Donald Trump on Friday falsely claimed a group of four Democratic congresswomen he has repeatedly attacked this week had referred to Jews as “evil.”

Speaking to reporters outside the White House, the president said of the four women: “They can’t call our country and our people ‘garbage.’ They can’t be anti-Semitic. They can’t talk about evil Jews, which is what they say. ‘Evil Jews.'”

None of the women has ever been documented referring to “evil Jews.”

The president may have been referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeting in 2012 during a conflict in the Gaza Strip: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

That tweet has been condemned by many as anti-Semitic for its reference to hypnotism, and Omar later apologized for using that phrase.

Trump was also misrepresenting the use of the word “garbage,” which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not use to denigrate her country or its people. Rather, asked in March about her so-called radical socialist agenda, she said: “We’ve strayed so far away from what has really made us powerful and just and good and equitable and productive. And so, I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are. But where we are is not a good thing. This idea of 10 percent better from garbage shouldn’t be what we settle for.”