TRUMP quotes Omar as saying: “You don’t say ‘America’ with this intensity. You say ‘al-Qaida,’ it makes you proud. Al-Qaida makes you proud. You don’t speak that way about America.”
THE FACTS: This is a wholly distorted account of what the Minnesota Democrat said. She did not voice pride in the terrorist group.
Trump is referring to an interview Omar gave in 2013. In it, she talked about studying terrorism history or theory under a professor who dramatically pronounced the names of terrorist groups, as if to emphasize their evil nature.
“The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘al-Qaida,’ he sort of like — his shoulders went up” and he used a menacing, intense tone, she said. Her point was that the professor was subtly rousing suspicions of Muslims with his theatrical presentation, while pronouncing “America” without the intensity he afforded the names of terrorist groups.
At no point did she say “al-Qaida” should be uttered with intensity or pride and that “America” shouldn’t.
- AP
Double check these facts, if you want. But you still need to accept the reality: The President of the United States committed slander, and defamed a member of Congress, in public, on the record. He singled out a person from a religious and ethnic minority, slandered them, and also directed a racist slur at them.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? IS THAT THE AMERICA YOU WANT TO LIVE IN? DO YOU WANT YOUR GRANDCHILDREN TO SEE THIS PRESIDENT, AS CHILDREN OFTEN DO WITH PRESIDENTS, AS A ROLE MODEL???
GIVE A STRAIGHT FUCKING ANSWER.