Rep. Ilhan Omar defends her World Trade Center remarks: '9/11 was an attack on all Americans'
Rep. Ilhan Omar responded to criticism from a 9/11 victim’s son, who, during a memorial reading of victims’ names at Ground Zero last week, called out the freshman congresswoman for past remarks she made about the terrorist attacks.
“I certainly could not understand the weight of the pain that the victims of the families of 9/11 must feel,” @IlhanMN says, but we should also remember that many Americans had “their civil rights stripped from them” in the wake of the attacks. pic.twitter.com/m6LbX3i2DGOn the 18th anniversary of 9/11, Nicholas Haros Jr.
Story continuesHe continued: “I was attacked. Your relatives and friends were attacked. Our constitutional freedoms were attacked, and our nation’s founding on Judeo-Christian principles was attacked. That’s what some people did. Got that now?”
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