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Ilhan Omar: “Trump in his first term severely surpassed the number of…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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'Full of Shit': Ilhan Omar Dismisses Republican Attacks of the Left After Kirk Killing

Published | Video Starts at 05:15

The one thing that people oftentimes will remember is the fact that Obama was the disastrous when it came to carrying out drone strikes and killing innocent people. But what they don't know is that Trump in his first term severely surpassed the number of attacks and the number of innocent people that were being killed that the United States wasn't being held accountable for. And even now in his second term, just in the last eight months, there has been, you know, dozens and dozens of people who have been killed, not just in Somalia, but in, in other parts of the world as well. (05:15–05:25)

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Asserts that Trump exceeded previous administrations in drone attacks and civilian casualties.

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