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.
