Sarah Sanders on Beto O'Rourke's comment that Trump's attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar 'is an incitement to violence': 'The president is wishing no ill will and certainly, not violence towards anyone,' but he 'should be calling out the congresswoman.'
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a press briefing at the White House, March 11, 2019.
Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, has faced backlash, including from Trump, for a comment she made at a Council on American-Islamic Relations event at the end of March. "For far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen," the Minnesota Democrat said at the event. "Frankly, I’m tired of it. And every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. 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.
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