Omar said many threats were 'directly referencing' Trump's tweet, which included imagery of the twin towers burning to slam the Democrat's characterization of 9/11.
By Tim Elfrink Tim Elfrink Editor of the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 15 at 4:49 AM As President Trump has faced withering blowback over a Friday tweet that used video of the twin towers falling on 9/11 to launch a broadside against Rep. Ilhan Omar , many have argued that the visceral imagery could inspire more violence aimed at one of the first two Muslim women in Congress.
Omar’s warning, which came hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed she has asked the U.S. Capitol Police to increase protection for Omar, adds new urgency to the demands for calmer rhetoric from her critics, who have repeatedly charged her with anti-Semitism and now with downplaying the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The latest political firestorm around Omar centers on a speech she gave to a Council on American-Islamic Relations banquet on March 23. As The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler reported, her talk drew little attention until a controversial Australian figure tweeted a clip of her using the phrase “some people did something” when describing the 9/11 attacks.
Omar and her defenders have insisted that her quote, which came amid a longer speech decrying Islamophobia, was taken wholly out of context. They’ve noted that Omar was among the 213 co-sponsors of a bill to reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and suggested that the vitriol against her is actually rooted in prejudice against her religion.
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