'I stand undeterred': Ilhan Omar fires back after Trump shares 9/11 video by colincampbell
"I did not run for Congress to be silent," she wrote."I did not run for Congress to sit on the sidelines. I ran because I believed it was time to restore moral clarity and courage to Congress. To fight and to defend our democracy."
Omar said the organization “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.” [CAIR was in fact founded in 1994. Omar’s spokesman said she misspoke and “meant to refer to the fact that the organization had doubled in size after the Sept. 11 attacks."]
— Donald J. Trump April 12, 2019 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was among the Democrats who said Trump's video crossed a line.
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