Ilhan Omar: progressive Democrats condemn Republican smears and urge party to do the same
Trump escalates attacks on Muslim American congresswoman’s patriotism, prompting 2020 frontrunners to defend her
Progressive Democrats are calling on their party to condemn Donald Trump and other Republicans’ growing efforts to smear Ilhan Omar, one of the two Muslim women serving in Congress, as unpatriotic or un-American.
The president’s attacks against Omar, a black Muslim lawmaker, are “dangerous” and “inciting violence”, a handful of prominent Democrats said on Friday, as key congressional Democratic leaders remained silent. Just last week, a Trump supporter in upstate New York was charged with threatening to kill Omar.