Trump's 9/11 Tweet Caused Death Threats Against Ilhan Omar to Spike. Of Course It Did

On Friday, President Trump tweeted a video featuring out-of-context remarks Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) made about 9/11 juxtaposed with graphic images from the terrorist attack. In just three days, it has received nearly 100,000 retweets and over a quarter of a million likes. At one point, Trump had the tweet pinned to the top of his page so it would be the first thing seen by anyone who clicked on his account.

On Sunday night, Omar tweeted that since the video was posted, she has “experienced an increase in death threats,” many of which directly referenced the video. “Violent crimes and other acts of hate by right-wing extremists and white nationalists are on the rise in this country and around the world,” she wrote. “We can no longer ignore that they are being encouraged by the the occupant of the highest office in the land.”

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“We are all Americans,” she concluded. “This is endangering lives. It has to stop.”

Trump’s tweet was in response to comments Omar made last month during a speech at an event hosted by Council on American-Islamic Relations. “For 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,” Omar said. “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.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-9-11-tweet-death-threats-ilhan-omar-822225/