Ilhan Omar: “Every single threat I receive, literally like the one you…”

“But none of the death threats people are receiving are because of their faith, are because of the country of origin or their ethnicity. Every single threat I receive, literally like the one you listened right now, has a through line to the things that the president, the former president has said and what my colleagues and other Republicans have been saying. As you remember, our former president literally made an issue of the fact that he thought one of our former presidents, Obama, was a secret Muslim infiltrating our government, and that should cause us to worry.” (01:29–01:48)

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