Omar pushes back against ‘false equivalences’ after Nadler criticism for controversial cartoon

By Hunter Lovell

Published August 24, 2019 2:51am ET

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Omar pushes back against ‘false equivalences’ after Nadler criticism for controversial cartoon — Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., joins House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and newly-elected members at a news conference to discuss their priorities when they assume the majority in the 116th Congress in January, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared to push back against House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler’s comments that seemed to place her on par with President Trump in espousing anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Omar made her frustrations known in a series of tweets Friday afternoon, saying that “it is sickening to watch people make false equivalences between the open bigotry and hatred of this President and progressives.”

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