“This is not whining… This is an existential threat. She’s getting death threats on a daily basis,” he said, and then went on to compare…
“This is not whining… This is an existential threat. She’s getting death threats on a daily basis,” he said, and then went on to compare Ilhan Omar to former President John F. Kennedy.
According to Rivera, Omar is getting the same treatment as Kennedy, being judged on the basis of her identity and having her loyalty to the United States questioned.
“This is beginning to sound a lot like when my first presidential election, 1960 Kennedy being attacked because he was Catholic and they said he’s going to have allegiance to Rome rather than to the United States. I smell the same stink here.”
Watters then doubled down on his criticism of the Minnesota lawmaker, arguing that the Republicans are not acussing her of downplaying the September 11 attacks because she is a Muslim woman. The host argued that the GOP would have done the same to a straight, white, Christian congressman.
