Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a very special category: black, Muslim, and a refugee from Somalia. It’s a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian, and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It’s a born-on-third-base situation in national politics and media.
So when Omar submits herself to television interviews from liberal networks, she knows she can say inflammatory things and not be seriously challenged. On CBS’s Face the Nation, the topic was Renee Good being shot after she drove into an ICE agent with her SUV. Omar claimed Good was “sitting in her car peacefully,” and then the ICE agent “shouldn’t be trying to get in front of a moving car.” Good was right whether she was in Park or in Drive. On top of that, Team Trump shouldn’t defend the ICE agent, because “we can see in the videos that have been produced so far that what they are describing is really not what is taking place.”
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