Members of the Congressional Black Caucus directed their outrage Monday at President Donald Trump, for what they say was putting Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s
The group called again for the President to take down his tweet with the edited video that he posted Friday that used comments Omar made at the Council on American-Islamic Relations last month spliced with news footage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “We will never forget!” Trump wrote.
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said he has also ordered a security review, in addition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to review security both in Washington as well as in her district.
A New York man was arrested and charged earlier this month with threatening to assault and murder Omar, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York.
Rep. André Carson, who along with Omar is one of only three Muslim members of Congress, said on the call that he believes that such a security review is “long overdue” and said that the Sergeant at Arms, he believes, has been “too slow” to respond to death threats because the believes they don’t have the “capacity” at this point.
