House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she talked with the House Sergeant-at-Arms about Rep. Ilhan Omar's safety following President Trump's tweet
Democrats defend Omar, rip Trump over 9/11 controversyShe said she wanted"to ensure that Capitol Police are conducting a security assessment to safeguard Congresswoman Omar, her family and her staff" following President Donald Trump's tweet on Friday."They will continue to monitor and address the threats she faces," Pelosi said in a statement. Omar has had death threats against her in the past because of some of her comments.
was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to civil liberties." was founded in 1994.The tweet also included images from the 9/11 attacks. Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, was speaking to a branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The under-a-minute video Trump posted did not include Omar's comments in context.Read More"The President's words weigh a ton, and his hateful and inflammatory rhetoric creates real danger. President Trump must take down his disrespectful and dangerous video," Pelosi said in Sunday's statement.
, and Democrats have hit back, saying she was being mischaracterized and warning that people wrongly seizing on her comments could be inciting violence. "We are getting to the level where this is an incitement of violence against progressive women of color and if they can't figure out how to get it back to policy, we need to call it out for what it is because this is not normal and this is not a normal level of political debate or rhetoric," New York Democratic Rep.
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