The tweet, posted by Trump at 5:35 ET, featured a video of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar speaking to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in March 2018. Omar’s comments are followed by images
A tweet published late Friday afternoon by President Donald Trump stirred up more controversy and reaction from Democrats who found the message to be offensive.
The tweet, posted by Trump at 5:35 ET, featured a video of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar speaking to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in March 2018. Omar’s comments are followed by images of the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
« CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, » Omar says in the video with « some people did something » repeated multiple times as images from the attacks are played.
The tweet is currently pinned to the top of Trump’s account.
The comments from Omar are part of a larger speech where the congresswoman said, « Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen, and frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it… CAIR 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.
