Ilhan Omar Goes After President Trump, After Thousands Chant “Lock Her Up” at Rally
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said she resented anyone claiming President Donald Trump was not a racist on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Live.” In a video clip from lastnight’s Minnesota rally, Trump said, “What is going on with Omar? I have been reading the reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is.
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said she resented anyone claiming President Donald Trump was not a racist on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Live.”
In a video clip from lastnight’s Minnesota rally, Trump said, “What is going on with Omar? I have been reading the reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is. Then she tells us how to run our country. Can you believe it? How the hell did Minnesota elect her?”
She continued, “It’s completely terrifying truly, to have the president not only condemn white supremacy but to tell them to stand back and stand by. Many people understand what the implications are when you have a president who is supposed to care for and protect the citizens of this country really speak to people who are listed as a hate group, people who have been responsible for the majority of the domestic terrorist threats that our country has faced, to stand down. And they have responded accordingly and said the president has told us to stand down because he’s going to call upon us to beat up people and for my constituents and for constituents across the country, people are terrified. Our country really is at a crossroads where people have to make a decision on a direction we want to go. And that direction has to be one that isn’t the vision of the America that the president sees, but a vision of what America should be and the kind of America we want to live in.”
She added, “You know, and the president mocked his wife for wanting to go to Africa. He’s called African nations, you know shit-holes, this is not someone who has really hidden his hate for me and everything that I represent. I resent anyone who says this president is not racist. I resent anyone who says, you know this president is not a white supremacist because for the last four years and in his history, this president has told us who he is and we can no longer —we can no longer turn a blind eye to that. He’s destroying our country, and we have to make sure we defeat him.”
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