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.”
LOL...That’s right...I forgot about that...He wore himself out...LOL
How about brucker
She should be asked to define the politics of fascism. Not ‘examples of’ but define it.
I’m sure it was a fairy-tale come true for him.....
*ROFL* A real “fairy” tail....
Oops...tale....
jaywalking? Send her back.
“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.”
Her remark has the spirit of National Socialism and the CCCP to it.
I see you caught where I was going ..... LOLOL
Good work!
She is so clueless, she doesn't even recognize that's exactly what President Trump was doing, engaging in democratic debate and dissenting with her rhetoric.
SEND HER BACK!
Hehehe..........
She’s the boss in part because she checks more victim boxes. No doubt the others secretly envy her superior victim status.
“people who share my identity”
So identity thieves sold her the same social security number that a bunch of others are using?
They wouldn’t have been able to hear themselves over my horn.
Also...why are most news articles now days just a collection of tweets?
President Trump and his supporters are returning America from the abyss of radical nits like Cortez and her fellow Jihadist, returning this nation to the Constitutional Republic it was meant to be NOT the weak imitation of freedom and liberty we were becoming.
America does not deserve to be turned into a sh*thole like somalia.
That works too
Please provide documentation about that so that it can be used elsewhere without the claim of “Fake News”. Thank you.
Good point.
What’s more ironic is that the media is responsible for waking people up. Their reaction was due to their hatred of the president, and served to fuel the fire.
He played the entire left like a fiddle.
When you are in a hole,stop digging.The bible says that the fool is considered wise who remains silent.Wait she doesn’t believe in the bible.That explains it...
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