Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Ilhan Omar of praising al Qaeda

CNN via MSN ^ | 07/15/2019 | By Daniel Dale and Sarah Westwood, CNN

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In a series of racist tweets on Sunday, President Donald Trump told a group of four Democratic congresswomen, all of whom are people of color, to "go back" to their supposed home countries, though three of them were born in the US. On Monday, he aggressively defended the tweets -- and falsely accused one of the congresswomen, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, of having praised al Qaeda.

Trump said he is angry "when I hear people speaking about how wonderful al Qaeda is." He emphasized: "That was Omar. How great al Qaeda is." And he said, "She said you can hold their chest out, you can -- 'When I think of America, huh. When I think of al Qaeda, I can hold my chest out.' "

Facts First: Omar has not praised al Qaeda or said she can hold her "chest out" when thinking of al Qaeda. Trump was inaccurately describing remarks she made in 2013 about how one of her college professors acted when he discussed al Qaeda.

Trump was referring to an Omar comment that has circulated this year in conservative media, including Fox News.

Only a short video clip has been posted on conservative websites. Even that clip does not include Omar praising Al Qaeda in any way, but here is the full context.

In a 2013 appearance on the Twin Cities PBS show BelAhdan, which discussed Middle East issues, Omar told host Ahmed Tharwat that it can take a long time for citizens of a country to condemn their own governments' atrocities, since they don't want to be seen as unpatriotic.

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Omar, who came to the US as a refugee from Somalia, said that when the people committing the atrocities have not been elected, as in the case of "entities like al Qaeda or al-Shabaab" in Somalia, then "it is easier for you to say 'this is not OK,' because it is not a legitimized action, right, by laws."

[for-q-clinton]

Are they going to fact check Hillary for saying they are all from the USA?

[Skywise]

BS - Omar refuses to condemn alquaeda time and time again - calling them patriotic if not misguided.

[Deaf Smith]

Omar says she is a refugee from Somolia yet she has taken trip(s) back to that hell hole.

She had a good visit there.

[2banana]

Some people did some things...

[roadcat]

In a series of racist tweets on Sunday, President Donald Trump told a group of four Democratic congresswomen, all of whom are people of color, to "go back" to their supposed home countries, though three of them were born in the US.

These CNN racist aholes need to fact-check themselves! President Trump never told the four to get out, he said they could go to the other countries, fix things there, come back and say how they did it. CNN lies, as usual!!!

[Telepathic Intruder]

"all of whom are people of color"

As if their skin color as to do with anything. Well, yes it does. Correlation proves causation to them, so any criticism of someone who isn't white is proof of racism.

[ArmstedFragg]

I stopped reading after “a series of racist tweets”. It’s another example of the “verdict first, trial later” school of journalism.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"In a series of racist tweets on Sunday"

FALSE.

[mass55th]

Yeah, like he was wrong when he said he was “spied” on.

[FlipWilson]

Here it comes again folks. Just slap the words “fact check” in front of something and it is supposed to have instant credibility.

Fact check, the moon is made of cheese.

[Spok]

She wants the total destruction of Israel. It’s idiotic to quibble about who she thinks should do it.

[a fool in paradise]

Fact checkers need to check fathead idiot Omar:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/16/tucker_carlson_ilhan_omar_thinks_there_is_no_difference_between_al_qaeda_and_america.html

But is she grateful? No. She never stops complaining. As part of that complaining, she made this now-famous remark about 9/11: “CAIR 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.”

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Uh, no CAIR was NOT founded AFTER 9-11.

[MichaelCorleone]

After Candy Crowley’s phony ‘fact check’, I take all of it with a grain of salt.

Also, she may well have said it but it was never officially recorded. Or it could have been deleted/erased easily enough.

[FlingWingFlyer]

CNN and MSN is doing “fact checking” now? ROTFL!!! That’s funny.

[a fool in paradise]

Fact check, men and women are different and cannot change their sex.

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I’d get penalty boxed on Fakebook for saying that.

[dowcaet]

The AOC Squad is now the talk of the town in the Democrat Party. Is that what the party really wants? I think the president just trolled the RATS big time. Now the focus is on the four radicals that a lot of powerful Democrats would rather keep out of the spotlight!

[Bob434]

[[ In a series of racist tweets on Sunday, President Donald Trump told a group of four Democratic congresswomen, all of whom are people of color,]]

It doesn’t matter what damned color they are, white, yellow, brown green- whatever- if they hate this country- they should get out- His comment wasn’t color oriented- it was ‘America-haters oriented- period!

[conservative98]

Fact Check:

Once again, CNN comes to the defense of rabid anti-Semite Ilhan Omar https://t.co/XNuN4HC4vj— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 10, 2019

[LibertyWoman]

makes my head explode...