4/12/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/MUSLIMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Democrats on Saturday [4-13-19] rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on U.S. soil. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Trump for using the ‘painful images of 9/11 for a political attack’ against the first-term Minnesota Democrat. And presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, campaigning in New Hampshire, accused Trump of ‘trying to incite violence and to divide us, and every political leader should speak out against that.’ The video Trump retweeted Friday pulls a snippet of Omar’s recent speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in which she described the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center as ‘some people did something,’ and includes news footage of the hijacked planes hitting the Twin Towers. Trump also tweeted, “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!’…Many Republicans and conservative outlets expressed outrage at Omar’s remarks. Fellow Democrats, including some who have disagreed with Omar in the past, defended her.”

Associated Press, “Dems Defend Omar After Trump Retweets Video Against Her,” The New York Times online, April 12, 2019