Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy a „liar and a coward“ and said the Republican Party was „normalizing anti-Muslim …
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy a „liar and a coward“ and said the Republican Party was „normalizing anti-Muslim bigotry.“ Omar’s comments follow weeks of back-and-forth between herself and Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican, who at an event in November implied that Omar, who is Muslim, was a terrorist. „It’s shocking and unacceptable,“ Omar, a Democrat, said in an interview on CNN’s „State of the Union“ on Sunday. „And it’s very unbecoming of a congresswoman to use that kind of derogatory, dangerous, inciting language against a colleague.
