Ilhan Omar Burns Trump After He Accuses Her Of Trying To ‘Tell Us How To Run Our Country’
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The Democratic lawmaker, who is a U.S. citizen, had a searing one-sentence comeback to the president.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) had a biting comeback after President Donald Trump taunted her in a recent Fox News interview.
In an interview Monday on “The Ingraham Angle,” Trump railed against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) as a “low-IQ person” before tearing into Omar, the first Africa-born refugee to serve in Congress.
“I look at somebody that comes from Somalia, who, where they don’t have anything — they don’t have police, they don’t have military, they don’t have anything,” the president falsely said, appearing to reference Omar, the only U.S. lawmaker born in Somalia, whose family fled the civil war there in the 1990s. “All they have is crime — and she comes in and tells us how to run our country.”
Seemingly mocking Omar’s voice, Trump continued, “‘The Constitution says this, the Constitution says…’”
“The whole thing is crazy,” he added.
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