Sunday, 19 May 2024

Trump goes after Ilhan Omar with 9/11 attack montage video

President Trump on Friday released a video montage of the 9/11 attacks interwoven with controversial Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments that trivialized the acts of terror.

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“WE WILL NEVER FORGET!,” Trump tweeted in all caps above the video.

The video includes Omar’s much-criticized remarks to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in March with quick cuts to video footage taken of the horrific terror attacks, including clips that show the collapse of the Twin Towers.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” the congresswoman (D-Minneapolis) said at the time.

Her comments resurfaced when an Australian imam — who’s risen to social media fame — tweeted them out, leading to a firestorm of condemnation.

Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) led the attack over his colleague’s remark.

“First Member of Congress to ever describe terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as ‘some people who did something,’” he wrote on Twitter.

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