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Tue Apr 30, 2019, 09:38 PM Apr 2019

Ilhan Omar blasts 'demented views' in first extensive comments since Trump tweets

Source: CNN

Rep. Ilhan Omar, in her first extensive remarks since President Donald Trump publicly criticized her comments about 9/11, condemned the President's "vile attacks" and "demented views."

"We are collectively saying your vile attacks, your demented views are not welcome here," the Minnesota Democrat said Tuesday at a rally outside the US Capitol. "This is not going to be the country of the xenophobics. This is not going to be the country of the white people. This is not going to be the country of the few. This is going to be the country of the many."

Omar's remarks came on her first day back on Capitol Hill after a two-week recess. While lawmakers were out of town, Trump tweeted a video on April 12 using 9/11 imagery attacking her comments about the September 11 terrorist attacks and she has since said she's had an uptick in death threats.

"When this occupant of the White House chooses to attack me, we know -- we know -- that that attack isn't for Ilhan," Omar said. "That attack is the continuation of the attacks that he has leveled against women, against people of color, against immigrants, against refugees and certainly against Muslims."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ilhan-omar-blasts-demented-views-in-first-extensive-comments-since-trump-tweets/ar-AAAKDXr?li=BBnbfcL

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She is super cool! JoeOtterbein Apr 2019 #1
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Wellstone ruled

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3. Ms.Omar represents
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 10:45 PM
Apr 2019

quite a cross section of People in her District. White,African-American,Native Americans,70k Somali,Hispanics,and the largest Jewish population areas in the Twin Cities.

Once again,Minnesota is on the forefront of Cultural change and there is no going back.

Congresswoman Omar is the real deal and she is not going anywhere soon.

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