Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) directed her ire at President Donald Trump over the weekend after reports revealed Minnesota Democrats are mulling a primary challenge in response to the congresswoman’s repeated anti-Semitic comments.
“I’m sorry Mr. [Trump],” Omar tweeted in an apparent attempt to turn the spotlight off of her and this embarrassing development, “I am for real, you can’t #MuslimBan us from Congress!”
The Daily Caller’s Molly Prince reports:
I am sorry Mr. @realDonaldTrump ????
I am for real, you can’t #MuslimBan us from Congress! pic.twitter.com/EX1KNeUPiA
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 17, 2019
Minnesota Democrats are reportedly dismayed that Omar has made a string of bigoted comments about Jews, which have received massive condemnation from both sides of the aisle. Consequently, members of the state party are looking for someone to contest her nomination in 2020 and run a different candidate in her place.
Rather than blaming the Minnesota Democrats, Omar focused the backlash on Trump’s 2017 executive order, which has been referred to as a Muslim ban. The executive order suspended U.S. entry of those whose counties do not meet adjudication standards under federal immigration law for 90 days and included exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
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Omar has defended the anti-Semitic statements, such as ones invoking Allah to expose Israel’s “evil doings,” and she is on record stating that Israel is not a democracy. She also gave an interview to a host that referred to Israel as the “Jewish ISIS” and mocked how Americans speak about al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.
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Omar announced in February that she is scheduled to raise money with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only a week after she used an anti-Semitic trope to claim Israel has paid for GOP support.
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