Trump promotes false video of Rep. Omar

[left-of-center2012]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday used Twitter to share an edited video made by a conservative comedian that falsely accused Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of dancing and partying last week on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The inaccurate video provoked new Twitter criticism of the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota, who has regularly faced accusations from her critics that she is unpatriotic. Omar’s supporters, meanwhile, rallied around her.

The video of Omar dancing to popstar singer Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” was taken Friday at an event celebrating Omar and four other congresswomen, according to Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, who originally shared the clip to his Twitter account that evening. Omar also shared the video that day to her Twitter account.

“I never thought that a video taken on 9/13 would be linked to 9/11 and used as one more racist smear” against Omar, Green said of the false tweet that followed.

“The President of the United States is continuing to spread lies that put my life at risk,” Omar wrote on Twitter. “What is Twitter doing to combat this misinformation?”

https://www.apnews.com/92e487b1846443ffa271072945b538c5

[struggle4progress]

1. 'I Have No Obligation to Be Honest to the Media'

[applegrove]

2. Andrew Scheer, leader of Conservatives in canada, has been caught

in three made up lies in the first week of the election using misleading videos or whatnot. His latest lie is that he is happy to have small crowds cause it means more people knocking on voters' doors. That makes 4. Have they figured out the jig is up and they need an false alternative theory different from their normal false alternative theory (tax cuts, race) to win.

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[Initech]

4. Conservative comedian... does not compute.

And I wonder what Lizzo thinks of this?