Rep. Ilhan Omar on Pres. Trump's 'blatantly racist' tweets: 'This is the agenda of white nationalists, whether it's happening in chat rooms, or it's happening on national TV—and now it's reached the White House garden.'
President Donald Trump on Monday continued taking aim at a group of House Democratic lawmakers of color after his incendiary tweets telling them to"go back" to their countries over the weekend, falsely accusing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., of praising terrorist group al Qaeda.
In conversations about how American Muslim communities navigate responding to terror attacks committed by Muslim extremists, the host, Ahmed Tharwat, noted how Arabic names for groups like al Qaeda, Hezbollah and al-Shabab are commonly used in the U.S."They don't mean anything evil," Omar replied, calling their usage"a product of the sensationalized media"
A clip of Omar's comments has circulated on conservative media and social media, which likely prompted the president's comments. WHAT OMAR SAID ABOUT 9/11: Speaking at a Council on American-Islamic Relations event in March, Omar said the advocacy group"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."
WHAT TRUMP SAID: On Monday, Trump also said Omar"says horrible things about Israel, hates Israel, hates Jews, it's very simple."
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