Co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee:
This gave comedian and conservative commentator Terrence K.Williams the opportunity to tweet out a video- showing footage of Omar dancing- with the comment "Girl, what in the world were you celebrating on the anniversary on 9/11?"
As vigilantfact-checker Daniel Dale pointed out, Omar and colleague Ayanna Presley (D-Ma) were enjoying themselves at an event, connected with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference, which actually occurred on September 13.
Defending Omar, even when she is gracelessly smeared, is not a road congenial to Democrats. However, there is no reason this incident can't be legitimately and justifiably turned back on Donald Trump, whose 9/11 career is vulnerable.
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Can someone name something better than @IlhanMN dancing to @lizzo? Because I can’t think of anything. #CBC2019 #CBCWeek #cbcweekend pic.twitter.com/KvsCRvgKQX— Adam Green (@AdamGreen) September 14, 2019
I can think of a few, perhaps beginning with campaign
finance reform and re-regulation of the financial services industry, two of the
things Green's organization advocates when its co-founder isn't falling in love
with the idea of a congresswoman dancing.
I'd figuratively kill to be a salesman selling this guy a beautiful new car, at
double the invoice price.
This gave comedian and conservative commentator Terrence K.Williams the opportunity to tweet out a video- showing footage of Omar dancing- with the comment "Girl, what in the world were you celebrating on the anniversary on 9/11?"
As vigilantfact-checker Daniel Dale pointed out, Omar and colleague Ayanna Presley (D-Ma) were enjoying themselves at an event, connected with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference, which actually occurred on September 13.
Williams took down the tweet but not before
the nation's Liar-in-Chief re-tweeted him with the comment "IIhan
Omar, a member of AOC Plus 3, will win us the Great State of Minnesota. The new
face of the Democrat Party!" As of 3:20 p.m. eastern on Wednesday, Trump's
tweet remained on his feed.
Defending Omar, even when she is gracelessly smeared, is not a road congenial to Democrats. However, there is no reason this incident can't be legitimately and justifiably turned back on Donald Trump, whose 9/11 career is vulnerable.
Campaigning in Alabama in November of 2015, candidate Trump
boasted "I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I
watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were
cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were
cheering." Politifact rated that claim "pants on fire."
On the morning of
September 11, 2001 itself, Trump bragged “40 Wall Street actually was the
second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. Before the World Trade Center it
was the tallest. Then when the built the World Trade Center it become known as
the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.” The building did not sustain any
damage in the attack but Trump still applied for, and received, federalrecovery money intended for small businesses.
It is not a joke, and not mere hyperbole or dishonesty. It takes someone thoroughly hostile not only
to American Muslims, but to Americans of all backgrounds, and a kind of evil only Donald Trump and that giant in Dante's Inferno is capable of. This is an issue just
begging for a campaign. When President Trump gives Democrats an opportunity,
they should take advantage by turning lemons into lemonade, garbage into gold, and exposing him for what he is.
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