Fellow Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have said Omar’s comments were taken out of context and lambasted Trump.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Saturday came to the defense of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, adding to the list of Democrats who have ridiculed the president for tweeting an edited video that cuts between clips of the Minnesota representatvie giving a speech and events from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Rep. Ilhan Omar listens to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during a rally for H.R. 1, or the We The People Act, on the East Steps of the U.S. Capitol March 8 in Washington, DC. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images "Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly, I'm tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it," Omar said.
CAIR was actually founded in 1994, according to the organization, and works to “promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America.”
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