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(Hadalsame) 19 July 2019<\/strong><\/span> – The president railed against the congresswoman at his North Carolina rally, targeting her refugee status, religion and ethnicity.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump spent nearly five minutes\u00a0railing against the Minnesota<\/a>congresswoman Ilhan Omar<\/a>\u00a0at his \u201cKeep America Great\u201d rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The framing of his attacks on Omar often targeted her refugee status, religion and ethnicity, and reveal how much the president is willing to bend the truth to make it seem that Omar is an enemy of the United States.<\/p>\n

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‘Despicable’: Democrats condemn Trump over rally’s Ilhan Omar chant<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n
On terrorism<\/h2>\n
What Trump said<\/strong>: \u201cRepresentative Omar blamed the United States for the terrorist attacks on our country, saying that terrorism is a reaction to our involvement in other people\u2019s affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Facts<\/strong>: Trump\u2019s main fuel for his tirades against Omar stems from her criticism of Americans for their discrimination against Muslims.<\/p>\n
Much of the material Trump cites, often without context, comes from a 2013\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0for a local Minnesota talkshow. During the interview, Omar never discusses a love for al-Qaida or other terrorist organizations (she frequently refers to them as \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cheinous\u201d), but criticizes Americans for confounding all Muslims with terrorism.<\/p>\n
While Omar does not blame the US for terrorist attacks, she has often argued that Americans insist on looking past their own role in the conflict in the Middle East that has fuelled the formation of terrorist groups in the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody wants to think of how these are byproducts of the actions of our involvement in other people\u2019s affairs,\u201d she has said.<\/p>\n
On Omar\u2019s marriages<\/h2>\n
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What Trump said<\/strong>: \u201cThere was a lot of talk that she was married to her brother. I don\u2019t know anything about it. I heard she was married to her brother, you\u2019re asking me a question about it. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m sure there will be someone who will be looking into that.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Facts<\/strong>: Trump\u2019s answer was prompted by a reporter at a press conference before Trump\u2019s rally who asked, \u201cis your administration going to possibly look into immigration frauds committed by\u00a0Ilhan Omar<\/a>\u00a0by possibly marrying her brother\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump added fuel to a rumor, created by conservative bloggers and spread during her 2018 congressional campaign, that Omar \u2013 who became a US citizen in 2000 \u2013 once married her brother to commit immigration fraud.<\/p>\n
The rumor is born from Omar\u2019s complicated marital\u00a0 history<\/a>. She applied for a marriage license with her husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, in 2002. Though a license wasn\u2019t given, she said they were married in accordance with their faith traditions. She had two children with Hirsi before their relationship ended in 2008.<\/p>\n
In 2009, she married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, according to a marriage certificate. She said her relationship with Elmi ended in 2011, and she reunited with Hirsi in 2012. Her divorce with Elmi was legally finalized in 2017, and she married Hirsi again last year.<\/p>\n
Omar has denounced the accusation that Elmi is her brother as \u201cdisgusting lies\u201d. \u201cInsinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive,\u201d Omar said in a\u00a0 statement<\/a>\u00a0in 2016.<\/p>\n
On Somalia<\/h2>\n
What Trump said<\/strong>: \u201cShe smeared US service members involved in Black Hawk Down. in other words, she slandered the brave Americans that were trying to keep peace in Somalia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Facts<\/strong>: Trump here refers to\u00a0a tweet from Omar<\/a>\u00a0in 2017 that resurfaced in conservative media outlets this spring.<\/p>\n
The tweet is Omar\u2019s response to a person who, in light of a bomb attack that killed more than 230 people in Somalia\u2019s capital, argued that the worst terrorist attack in the country was when 19 Americans died in combat during the 90s when the US troops raided the capitol (the raid inspired an American war film titled Black Hawk Down).<\/p>\n
\u201cIn his selective memory, he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day! #NotTodaySatan\u201d Omar tweeted.<\/p>\n
The number of Somalis that were killed that same day is\u00a0 unclear<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 some sources say it could be in the thousands, other say in the hundreds. Eighteen American soldiers were killed and 73 were injured.<\/p>\n
On the Islamic State<\/h2>\n
What Trump said<\/strong>: \u201cShe pleaded for compassion for Isis recruits attempting to join the terrorist organization. She was looking for compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Facts:\u00a0<\/strong>Trump leaves out context here again. In this statement, he implies that Omar has compassion for terrorists.<\/p>\n
What he is referring to is a\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0Omar sent to a Minnesota judge in 2016 pleading that he take a \u201crestorative approach to justice\u201d when sentencing six young men who were charged with plans to join Isis.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0 judge<\/a>\u00a0sentenced the men to more than 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n
On Venezuela<\/h2>\n
What Trump said<\/strong>: Omar blamed the US for the crisis that\u2019s happening in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Facts:\u00a0<\/strong>Trump pushed Omar\u2019s statement to its extremes.\u00a0<\/strong>Omar said the US helped to set the stage for the conflict of Venezuela through sanctions and intervention.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead to the devastation in Venezuela,\u201d Omar said in May.<\/p>\n
The vice-president, Mike Pence, said Omar was backing \u201csocialism over freedom\u201d through her comment.<\/p>\n
In response to Pence, Omar\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter that \u201cjust as in interventions past, those who opposed war are labeled supporters of dictators and haters of \u2018freedom\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n
Source: The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n
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