![]() ![]() This isn’t the first time we’ve come across a fake tweet masquerading as a statement from a public official. citizen, so she can’t be deported unless she is stripped of her citizenship. Not only that, but Omar is a naturalized U.S. Trump tweeted 16 times on that date, but none of them match the one circulating now. We wrote a story providing the context for her comments.Īlthough the president joined in on the criticism of Omar, he didn’t send the tweet threatening deportation. Her mention of 9/11 came about halfway through the speech, but it has overshadowed everything else she said. I am going to talk to them and ask them why. You have to say this person is looking at me strange, I am not comfortable with it. So you can’t just say that today someone is looking at me strange, that I am going to try to make myself look pleasant. Omar, March 23: CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. In an address at an annual Council on American-Islamic Relations event in March, the Minnesota Democrat said: That’s a reference to the part of Omar’s speech that critics have seized on. ![]() ![]() But he didn’t say that he would deport her.Ī fake tweet, however, is going around the internet making it look like the president tweeted this message: “When I deport Ilhan Omar we can just say ‘some people did something’.” Ilhan Omar was panned last month for remarks she made referencing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump chimed in on Twitter by sharing a video that spliced her words with footage of the twin towers falling in lower Manhattan. Ilhan Omar for comments she made referring to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A fake tweet circulating online purports to show a message from President Donald Trump threatening to deport Rep. ![]()
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