On September 13th an activist took a video of Omar dancing at a Congressional Black Caucus event. This video was later taken by a conservative “comedian” and turned into an attack on Omar, claiming she was somehow celebrating the anniversary of 9/11. President Trump used his platform to retweet the remarks to his millions of followers. The tweet from the comedian was eventually removed by Twitter because it was blatantly peddling dangerous lies, but who knows how many saw it thanks to the signal boost given to it by Trump.
When will enough be enough for Trump and his supporters? When one of the nutters inspired by his reckless hate and lies guns down Omar? Or will that just be considered another casualty in their battle to “Keep America Great”?
It was extremely poorly worded and is extremely insensitive to those who lost people in 9/11… but she isn’t wrong about the abuses of people who were Muslim and had nothing to do with the attack in the aftermath of 9/11.
Yeah… she is wrong about the date of the founding of care… but that is not what I was addressing.
The “some people did something” phrase that is being thrown about.
The Government detained hundreds of Muslim men that had no connection to the attack for an average of three to eight months. Never charged with a crime and some of them in solitary.
As I said… she said something correct in a poorly worded way that has brought a lot of this hate on to herself.
The point is that our president saw this tweet and his second thought wasn’t if it was made up, but rather he could use it to inflict damage. This has been his MO. He believes that he can lie and just make ■■■■ up and it doesn’t matter because it’s good for the base.
