The eldest son of President Trump was referring to a 2017 tweet the Somali American congresswoman made following a deadly truck bomb blast in Mogadishu.
The eldest son of President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., has hit out at Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar over a two-year-old tweet, asking if the media will confront Democrats over comments she made about casualties caused by U.S. troops in Somalia.
“In his selective memory, he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day,” Omar tweeted alongside the hashtag #NotTodaySatan. Omar, who at the time was a Minnesota state representative, was referring to the failure of a Twitter user to mention the number of Somali deaths in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, which marked a bloody chapter in U.S. intervention in the embattled East African nation.
Is the media going to ask every Democrat if they agree with Ilhan Omar that American troops are killers?!? https://t.co/oTknkE0Uf0 Omar, one of two Muslim women elected for the first time to the House of Representatives, has become a lightning rod for right wing criticism in recent months. Earlier this April she was pilloried by conservative commentators and politicians after videos edited out of context were shared online, appearing to show her underplaying the severity of the 9/11 attacks.
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