Could Donald Trump’s tweet get Rep. Ilhan Omar killed?
He’s the President of the United States and he pretends that the things he says, when he has the biggest microphone on earth, can’t lead to physical harm.
Because they can.
Over the weekend Donald Trump issued an inflammatory tweet against Minnesota Democratic freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar.
It was so bad that even the FOX host Chris Wallace refused to play more than five seconds of it, then asked Trump’s press secretary Sarah Sanders if Trump was inciting violence against Omar.
Sanders said Trump wishes no “ill will” to befall the Muslim congresswoman and added, “The president is not trying to incite violence against anybody.”
A president's words matter
The controversy involves a brief clip from a speech Omar gave in March to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in which she said in part, "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.”What the congresswoman clearly meant, if you hear the remarks in context, is that law-abiding American Muslims were the subjects of harassment and more following the 9/11 attacks, which were carried out by Muslim extremists.
Trump – and critics of Omar – were outraged by the phrase “some people did something” for not being explicit enough. As if Omar’s intent was the diminish the attack.
He tweeted:
Omar’s remarks were not politically correct. She should have been more sensitive to the feelings we have about 9/11, to the pain it engenders. The sadness. The anger.
Political correctness from Trump?
But how odd is it for Trump to be haranguing a person over a lack of political correctness?Omar is a controversial person. She already receives death threats. They’ve increased since Trump’s tweet.
And while he has every right to criticize her is the president so naïve he can't recognize that the tone of his response was inflammatory enough to incite violence?
Omar issued a statement afterward saying in part: “Violent rhetoric and all forms of hate speech have no place in our society, much less from our country’s Commander in Chief. We are all Americans. This endangering lives. It has to Stop.”
Using 9/11 for political gain
The video Trump tweeted juxtaposes Omar's “some people” quote with footage of the 9/11 attacks and a message reading, “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!”So, not only was the president demonizing Omar in a way that could put the congresswoman in danger, but he was using the horrible images of 9/11, pictures of Americans being murdered, to score political points.
What’s worse than that?
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