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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,496 posts)
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 03:26 PM Nov 2021

Another video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was a terrorist




Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado suggested to a crowd in September that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whom she called "black-hearted" and "evil," was a terrorist.

In those same remarks, she said that she felt safe around Omar because the Democrat wasn't wearing a backpack while they were in an elevator together.

It's another instance in which Boebert suggested Omar, who is Muslim and wears a hijab, was a terrorist. On Monday, the two lawmakers sent dueling statements about a phone call between the pair set up by Boebert after she apologized last week to "to anyone in the Muslim community I offended," when similar comments surfaced on social media.

The video of Boebert's anti-Muslim comments, made in New York at a September Staten Island Conservative Party dinner, were posted on Facebook that month by an attendee running for borough president.



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Another video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was a terrorist (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2021 OP
What are the differences between Ilhan Omar and Lauren Boebert? Botany Nov 2021 #1
CNN releases shocking new video of Lauren Boebert: 'We see her for who she is' LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2021 #2
That well groomed group at the fundraiser loved her islamophobic slander. Hortensis Nov 2021 #3
When I saw the first video that got out there gratuitous Nov 2021 #4

Botany

(70,570 posts)
1. What are the differences between Ilhan Omar and Lauren Boebert?
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 03:36 PM
Nov 2021

One graduated from high school, then college, and had a fellowship @ the University of Minnesota and
the other dropped out of high school because she got pregnant @ 17 from a man who was convicted
of showing his penis off to underage girls @ a bowling ally.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. That well groomed group at the fundraiser loved her islamophobic slander.
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 03:50 PM
Nov 2021

Ready laughter and "Oh, my god!" at her description of being in an elevator when terrorist Ilhan Omar stepped in.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. When I saw the first video that got out there
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 05:27 PM
Nov 2021

I thought, "Those lines sound pretty well-rehearsed. I don't think it's the first time Boebert's told this story to a friendly audience."

Sure enough.

Well, I'm sure that now we'll hear from Minority Leader McCarthy about the punishment he'll mete out to this serial bigot!

Excuse me, I have to

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