The president of the United States, Donald Trump, criticized congresswoman Ilhan Omar, highlighting its somali origin and questioning its credibility to comment on the management of the United Statesafter positioning themselves in the public eye for calling the ultraconservative activist Charlie Kirk “stochastic terrorist” and generating a republican onslaught against him.
“The country of Ilhan Omar, Somalia, is plagued by lack of control of the central government, persistent poverty, hunger, terrorism, piracy, decades of civil war, corruption and generalized violence. 70 % of the population lives in extreme poverty and faces food insecurity,” Trump said through his official Truth Social account.
The president added that Omar tells them “how to direct the United States” and questioned, without official confirmation, aspects of their marriageindicating that “wasn’t she who married her brother to obtain citizenship?”
Omar, a Democratic congressman of the State of Minnesota, has faced this week attempts by the Republicans for punishing her in the House of Representatives, after she issued a comment where she regretted the murder of Kirk but at the same time she opined about the figure of the activist who was directly accused of spreading racist messages.
In a closed vote in Congress, with 214 votes in favor and 2013 against, on Wednesday the Lower House filed the intention of the Republican Nancy Mace to censor to Omar and take away her space in two commissions of the Congress: that of education and workforce.
The dawn of this Thursday, Omar published in his X account that the congressmen who voted against did not join to “protect her”, but did it out of respect for “the first amendment and sanity” and added that “this country defends freedom and what is happening is unacceptable.”
Omar was born in Mogadiscio, Somalia, in 1982 but at four years he fled to a Kenyan refugee camp in the middle of a civil war in his country. In 1995 he arrived in the United States, he was naturalized in 2000 and after graduating in Political Science in 2011 he made the leap to partisan life and in 2016 he became the first Somali-State and Muslim woman chosen in Congress. EFE
