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'What happens if I am killed?' Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks out about threats
Star Tribune ^ | 5/06/23 | Hunter Woodall

Posted on 05/12/2023 6:58:47 AM PDT by Libloather

WASHINGTON - Death threats are a persistent part of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's life.

"I have to have regular conversations with my kids: 'What happens if I am killed?'" Omar said in an interview. "I have to have regular conversations with them about how to walk down the street, things to look for."

Since the Minneapolis Democrat won her congressional seat in 2018, two men have pleaded guilty to threatening to kill her. Omar's name, along with those of other prominent Democrats and some media figures, was found on a list put together by a man federal prosecutors warned "stockpiled assault weapons, studied violence, and intended to exact retribution on minorities and those he considered traitors."

In the most recent incident of threatening behavior, a man accused of starting fires at two Minneapolis mosques allegedly vandalized Omar's congressional office nearby and sent harassing emails.

When Democrats ran the House during her first four years in office, Omar said she could count on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make sure she had the help and protection she needed. She said she lacks that confidence with the new Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy.

"I don't know if I feel confident that if things were to rise to a dangerous level again if I can rely on the current speaker to take my safety and the safety of some of my other former vulnerable colleagues [seriously]," said Omar, the first Somali American and one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.

A spokesman for McCarthy responded in an email that the speaker "has made clear his expectation that politics must be separated from security and has empowered the House Sergeant at Arms to work with U.S. Capitol Police to protect all Members of Congress as they deem necessary."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: brother; fakenews; ilhanomar; justatease; kook; minnesota; omar; rop; waronterror; whataboutit
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To: Libloather

She is way down the kill list!


21 posted on 05/12/2023 7:06:47 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: Libloather

“What happens if I am killed?’”

From her lips to Yahweh’s ears......


22 posted on 05/12/2023 7:08:00 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: spincaster

A. Minnesota would do its best to elect an even more reprehensible POS to replace her.


23 posted on 05/12/2023 7:09:28 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Libloather

24 posted on 05/12/2023 7:12:11 AM PDT by null and void (Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.)
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To: Libloather

Killed? Vacancy in congress?


25 posted on 05/12/2023 7:12:12 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Libloather

If there is some perceived political advantage a handful of psycho leftists will make a big fuss.

Otherwise, you will not be missed.


26 posted on 05/12/2023 7:12:15 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Shady

“just vote her out of office if you can. Problem solved”

That’s the problem.....looks like Minnesota is now full of mindless democrat idiots......the ones that aren’t have now invaded my state and other red states, reaping the benifits of what we that have always lived here have worked for decades to achieve.....them being apparently too lazy to correct what’s screwed up in theirs.....and don’t get me started on their driving habits.


27 posted on 05/12/2023 7:12:20 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Vigilanteman

‘What happens if I am killed?’
____

Then somebody did something?


28 posted on 05/12/2023 7:13:17 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: skeeter

Woe is me


29 posted on 05/12/2023 7:13:19 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Libloather

‘What happens if I am killed?’” Omar said in an interview.

We celebrate and I am buying the first round of drinks!!!


30 posted on 05/12/2023 7:13:37 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Libloather
'What happens if I am killed?' Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks out about threats

I'd buy a round for everyone!

31 posted on 05/12/2023 7:13:52 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Save the Republic - VOTE TRUMP!!!)
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To: Shady

“...just vote her out of office...”

Her (and my) district is packed with Somali immigrants.
There’s no way she won’t win if she runs.


32 posted on 05/12/2023 7:13:55 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: Libloather
If-anything-in-this-life-is-certain-if-history-has-taught-us-anything
33 posted on 05/12/2023 7:14:44 AM PDT by The Louiswu (You cannot free a man from the chains which he reveres.)
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To: Libloather

They’ll bury you


34 posted on 05/12/2023 7:15:58 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather
'What happens if I am killed?'

The world stinks a little less?

35 posted on 05/12/2023 7:16:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Libloather

Protect your computer keyboard while reading this:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/14/ilhan-omar-pelosi-trump-security-alert-1274074

““They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse....However, when we ask to be at the table...we are ignored.”

Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)

“As is my custom with my colleagues, I call them in before I call them out”

Nancy Pelosi


36 posted on 05/12/2023 7:16:54 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Libloather

She should quit and get a cabin in the VT wilderness and be safe.


37 posted on 05/12/2023 7:17:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Libloather

What happens if you are killed? Well you die for starters.


38 posted on 05/12/2023 7:18:30 AM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: Libloather

Hopefully, dogs will consume your carcass in the streets.

Next question, please…


39 posted on 05/12/2023 7:18:41 AM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: Vigilanteman

😂


40 posted on 05/12/2023 7:18:58 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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