Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday flatly rejected charges of anti-Semitism against freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar amid verbal attacks by President Trump
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday flatly rejected charges of anti-Semitism against freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar amid a mounting onslaught of verbal attacks by President Donald Trump.
GOP critics have also sought to resurface some of Omar’s comments earlier this year, which had been widely perceived as anti-Semitic and led to a rare rebuke by House Democratic leaders. Pelosi doubled down Tuesday that Omar herself was not anti-Semitic.Sign Up “We have no taint of that in the Democratic Party,” Pelosi said. “Just because they want to accuse somebody of that doesn’t mean that we take that bait.”
Pelosi also dismissed any suggestions that she and other House leaders have been too slow to defend Omar, asby Omar’s close ally and fellow Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib , over the last week. Another Muslim Democrat, Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana, told reporters on Monday that the House security officials had been “too slow to respond to death threats” like the ones Omar has faced.
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