Posted on 07/18/2019 10:51:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
In a chaotic moment outside the Capitol, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — trailed by a mob of cameramen and reporters — stopped in the middle of Independence Avenue, shut down two lanes of traffic and gave an impromptu news conference responding to Trump supporters who chanted at President Trump's rally Wednesday that she should leave the country.
"I am not [scared for my safety.] What I'm scared for is the safety for people who share my identity,” Omar told a gaggle of journalists on Thursday.
"This is not about me. This is about fighting for what this country should be and what it deserves to be."
CNN's Manu Raju recorded video of reporters asking questions to Omar.
Her remarks came a day after Trump attacked four freshman Democratic congresswomen of color during a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night. As Trump singled out Omar, the crowd began chanting “Send her back!” — a nod to Trump’s earlier comments that the four minority women should “go back” to their own countries.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) were all born in the United States. Omar was born in war-torn Somalia, spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, sought asylum in the U.S. in 1992 and became a U.S. citizen in 2000.
Because of the size of the media scrum and the fact that Omar continued walking, a veteran Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer tripped over a curb and tumbled hard to the ground, causing Omar to help him back to his feet. Other reporters bumped into a car waiting to exit the jammed Capitol grounds, prompting a lawmaker to get out of the car and begin screaming at the press gaggle. The lawmaker was ignored.
When asked if Trump’s remarks are “racist,” Omar stopped in the middle of the eastbound lanes of Independence Avenue to answer the question, causing about 20 TV cameramen, photographers and reporters to block traffic.
“The fact that you’re still asking that question is really what’s wrong here, because we have said this president is racist. We have condemned his remarks. I believe he is fascist."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) “defended his comments by saying that if I was wearing a MAGA hat, if there was a Somali person wearing a MAGA hat, they would not be deported, but because I criticized the president, I should be deported,” Omar said as cars began honking and a Capitol Police officer yelled out that the lawmaker and reporters should not block the intersection.
“I want to remind people that this is what this president and his supporters have turned our country [into] that is supposed to be a country where we allow democratic debate and dissent to take place,” Omar continued. “This is not about me; this is about us fighting for what this country truly should be and what it deserves to be.”
You don't make many friends by disrupting traffic.
Everything she says is stupid, so she is appealing to her stupid base.
This is a no win for their side, and trump knows it.
So she admits to using stolen SSN's?
Forget the press conference, Homely Omie Could stop traffic with that face
So could AOC in fact
Idiot Omar cheered the racist ‘indidan’ who told the Covington Catholic students to “go back to Europe” simply because they are white.
Lying witch plays both sides of the same phrase.
She’s the real Boss of the Squad.
Omar is out of her league. She’s trying to play with the BIG kids, and she’s going to get herself hurt BIGLY. Looking forward to it.
Sounds like another scam to get illegals in the country.
She must be terrified of her handlers to keep shooting her mouth off
“...trailed by a mob of cameramen and reporters...”
This is where the problem is...as if anyone could conceivably give a rats ass who/what this commun8st thinks.
“What I’m scared for is the safety for people who share my identity,”
Fellow Brotherf$*kers?
Manu Raja is another one who can go.
I seriously doubt she even knows what the term is.
trailed by a mob of cameramen and reporters waiting for her great wisdom to flow over them ,LOL
You also do not make many friends in your own political party when you suck all of the oxygen out of the room, away from the Twenty (20) deadbeat Democrat Party buffoons and fools that are calling themselves 2020 candidates for POTUS. Poor Democrat Low Life POTUS candidates have been in hiding and silence for over a week!!! I’ll tell ya one thing folks, these losers are not getting my vote!!! They are not fit to become a certified dog catcher...period. Trump got these low life fools wired...a landslide victory for Trump is on the way!!! If the Democrats has an ounce of smart, common sense...they would dump both Pelosi and Schumer...neither has the leadership, brains nor, spine to take these nutcase America hating women on..period!!!
A “reckoning” is coming.............
They need to check her for a suicide vest.
Brother humpers
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