Posted on 11/30/2021 10:34:10 AM PST by Perseverando
Lauren Boebert claimed on Monday that Ilhan Omar hung up on her during a phone call amid a growing row over Islamophobia
Boebert said Omar wanted a public apology after she was caught on video making an offensive joke about the Democratic lawmaker
Omar - one of the first Muslim women in Congress - said it is past time for GOP leadership to punish her
'Saying I am a suicide bomber is no laughing matter,' Omar tweeted Friday
Boebert tweeted an apology but on Monday said she also demanded an apology from Omar for her anti-American, antisemitic, anti-police stances
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) called Boebert's comments 'disgusting'
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called Mace 'trash'
Mace defended herself and called Greene a 'religious bigot' and a racist
GOP Rep. Marjorie Greene on Tuesday called her Republican House colleague Nancy Mace 'trash' for saying Lauren Boebert's Ilhan Omar suicide bomber joke was 'disgusting'.
Greene sparked an ugly clash on Twitter when she accused the South Carolina congresswoman of being pro-abortion, told her to 'hang with your real gal pals in the Jihad Squad' and wrote 'your of your league'.
Mace hit back by correcting the 'you're' spelling in Greene's tweet, called herself a 'pro-life fiscal conservative' and added: 'What I’m not is a religious bigot (or racist). You might want to try that over there in your little "league"'.
The latest round in the spat within the Republican party over Boebert's comments played out after Mace on Sunday condemned 'racist tropes' and 'disgusting comments' on both sides of the aisle when Boebert compared Ilhan Omar to a suicide bomber.
That defense of a Democratic lawmaker did not sit well with Greene, who has clashed with lawmakers from both parties and had her committee assignments stripped
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Yep.
You’re your yore.
eye ham watt die ham.
We really need to run someone decent in the primary against her. Mace is as toxic as her name.
That statement may have been true 40 years ago but now, RINOs are trash we should speak ill of RINOs and traitors who claim to be Republicans.
Mace = Assistant Democrat...another consequence of the 19th Amendment.
Yes! she is a fighter.
Mace just needs to keep her mouth shut. Looks as if she may be on the payroll of the DNC, etc.
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