We should be fine,’” Boebert says with a laugh. And I said: ‘Well, she doesn’t have a backpack. “I look to my left and there she is, Ilhan Omar. In the video, Boebert claims that a Capitol police officer approached her with “fret on his face” shortly before she stepped into a House elevator and the doors closed. Omar said: “It is time for the Republican party to actually do something to confront anti-Muslim hatred in its ranks and hold those who perpetuate it accountable.”īoebert’s remarks were the latest example of a Republican lawmaker making a personal attack against another member of Congress, an unsettling trend that has gone largely unchecked by House Republican leaders.Ī video posted to Facebook last week showed Boebert speaking at an event and describing an interaction with Omar – an interaction that Omar maintains never happened. He calls Omar a “traitor” and says she will stand trial before a military tribunal. In the grainy recording, a man can be heard saying: “You will not be living much longer, bitch,” and that “we the people are rising up”. Omar said the voicemail was left for her after Boebert released another video on Monday criticising her. She then played the voicemail, laden with profanity, racial epithets and a threat to “take you off the face of this fucking Earth”, which she said was among hundreds of such messages she has reported since joining Congress. “We cannot pretend this hate speech from leading politicians doesn’t have real consequences.” “When a sitting member of Congress calls a colleague a member of the ‘jihad squad’ and falsifies a story to suggest I will blow up the Capitol, it is not just an attack on me but on millions of American Muslims across the country,” Omar said during a news conference on Tuesday. Recently a video of the first-term Colorado representative Lauren Boebert calling Omar a member of the “jihad squad” and likening her to a bomb-carrying terrorist went viral.
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