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Colorado RepublicanRep. Lauren Boebert, 35, levied her latest attack against DemocratRep. Ilhan Omar, 39, in her new memoir,My American Life.
In the self-described “gun-toting” congresswoman’s book, which follows her life’s story and why she “joined the fight to make sure we never live in a socialist country,” Boebert calls Omar a “terrorist sympathizer” who has “consistently spewed anti-American and anti-Jewish rhetoric.”
Boebert continued her attack on Omar and broadened it to encompass Democrats at large in her chapter titled, “Keep the Faith, Keep Up the Fight,” where she suggested that theJan. 6 Capitol riotswere over-dramatized.
She wrote, “Leftists will compare January 6 to 9/11 but look the other way when a domestic terror group like Antifa sets fire to cities like Portland, Seattle, or Minneapolis. In fact, Minneapolis’s own congressional representative not only doesn’t speak out against terrorism; she condones it.”
Boebert has ahistory of repeatedly attacking Omar, often referring to her as a member of the “jihad squad,” a derisive adaptation of “The Squad,” a term denoting a group of six progressive representatives. Boebert’s “jihad” label is in reference to Omar’s Muslim faith and Somalian origins.
In November 2021, Boebert recounted an anecdote when she was in the same Capitol elevator with Omar. Boebert said “she doesn’t have a backpack,” so “we should be fine,” alluding to the possibility of Omar being a suicide bomber.
Omar has retorted in the past. In 2021, shetweetedat Boebert, writing, “Luckily my dad raised me right, otherwise I might have gone to the floor to talk about this insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert,” referring to Boebert’s alleged involvement in the Jan. 6. uprisings and her husband’s public indecency and lewd exposure in a 2004 incident.
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Omar responded to the video clip on Twitterwith a famous GIFfrom a comedy sketch, apparently calling her an “idiot sandwich.”
source: people.com
