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.
