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Ilhan Omar accuses Donald Trump of endangering their lives

2019-09-19T11:01:33.343Z


In a video, it looks like US Congressman Ilhan Omar is celebrating and dancing on the anniversary of September 11th. But the video is from another day. Donald Trump shared it.



Ilhan Omar is tired. After Donald Trump shared a edited video on Wednesday showing the congresswoman dancing, she was severely targeted in the net. In the tweet of Comedian Terrence K. Williams you can see Omar dancing to the pop song "Truth Hurts" by singer Lizzo. The comedian wrote: "I have to talk to Omar, girl, what on earth did you celebrate on September 11th?"

In fact, the video is from September 13th and was recorded at a convention event. The original video was published on Twitter last week by the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), Adam Green, and shared by Omar himself.

Trump, who has more than 64 million followers on Twitter, picked up comic book release Williams and wrote, among other things, "The new face of the Democratic Party!". In a tweet, Omar accused Trump of having put her in mortal danger by playing the video on Twitter. "The President of the United States continues to spread lies that endanger my life," she wrote Wednesday.

This is a CBC event we hosted this weekend to celebrate Black Women in Congress.

The President of the United States is continuing to spread my life at risk.

What is Twitter doing this misinformation? https://t.co/XdkRVrU7mZ

- Ilhan Omar (@IhanMN) 18 September 2019

The Muslim MEP also directed her protest against the short message service: "What is Twitter doing to address this erroneous information?" Omar is the second known politician to have recently criticized Twitter for disseminating false information, according to presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.

The comedian's tweet with the clip later disappeared from his account, so the link in Trump's tweet went nowhere. Williams himself has deleted the publication, CNN and the Washington Post reported.

Omar, who fled from Somalia to the United States as a child with her family, has been publicly verbally attacked by Trump along with other Democrat MPs. She is one of the first Muslims in Congress and the first refugee to ever make it to the US House of Representatives.

Source: spiegel

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