More than 150 progressive leaders and groups are lining up behind Rep. Ilhan Omar amid intensifying attacks
from the right over her controversial comments about the September 11 terror attacks.the U.S. Capitol Police and the House sergeant-at-arms to conduct “a security assessment to safeguard Congresswoman Omar, her family and her staff,” following a Twitter post from President Donald Trump that Omar said has sparked threats against her life.obtained by POLITICO.
Democratic presidential candidates quickly came to her defense over the weekend after Trump posted a video on Friday that called attention to Omar’s remarks that Republicans panned as having downplayed the 2001 terror attacks.Sign Up “For too long we have lived with the danger 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 during a speech on March 24. “[The Council on American-Islamic Relations] was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
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