Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of spreading “lies that put my life at risk” after the president retweeted a post falsely claiming that the Minnesota Democrat “partied on the anniversary of 9/11.”
Omar said the video of her dancing was taken not on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but at a Congressional Black Caucus event. Earlier Wednesday, Trump had retweeted a post by conservative actor and comedian Terrence K. Williams claiming that the video of Omar dancing was taken on the anniversary of the attacks. The original video appears to have been taken Sept. 13.
“This is from a CBC event we hosted this weekend to celebrate black women in Congress,” Omar said in a tweet. “The President of the United States is continuing to spread lies that put my life at risk. What is Twitter doing to combat this misinformation?”
In his message retweeting Williams on Wednesday morning, Trump had claimed: “Ilhan Omar, a member of AOC Plus 3, will win us the Great State of Minnesota. The new face of the Democrat Party!” AOC is a reference to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who like Omar is a freshman whom Republicans have sought to cast as among the new leadership of the Democratic Party.
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference took place Sept. 11-15 in Washington. Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, tweeted the video of Omar dancing at one of the CBC events on Sept. 13. The PCCC on Wednesday called the claim that Omar “partied” on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks “an abhorrent lie that endangers a member of Congress.”
“Twitter must remove Trump’s Tweet now,” the organization said.
A spokeswoman for Twitter said it was looking into the matter.
Omar, a freshman Democrat and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, has been a frequent target of attacks by Trump and Republicans. After she addressed the Council on American-Islamic Relations in March, Republicans seized on a snippet of her remarks in which she said the Muslim rights organization “was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
Trump has also said that Omar and three other minority women in Congress – Ocasio-Cortez and fellow freshman Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Three of the four were born in the United States; Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and became a U.S. citizen as a teenager.
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There we go. This little girl pulled out the “victim” card. What took her so long? It’s written very clearly in the Democrat/media playbook, when you have no answer, pull out the victim card. It works like a charm. If this little girl can’t handle the heat, she should resign.
> The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference took place Sept. 11-15 in Washington.
One might ask whether it is appropriate in the first place for a non-related government/political event to be held during a day when it would distract from 9/11? So did they mark 9/11 during this conference, and if so, how?
she’s getting so upset that someone said something?
I wanted to have my pet rock join “the squad” I was refused because the rock was overqualified.