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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was a terrorist
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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.
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
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CNN releases shocking new video of Lauren Boebert: 'We see her for who she is'
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2021
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Botany
(70,570 posts)1. What are the differences between Ilhan Omar and Lauren Boebert?
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.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,496 posts)2. CNN releases shocking new video of Lauren Boebert: 'We see her for who she is'
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. That well groomed group at the fundraiser loved her islamophobic slander.
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
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