Rep. Ilhan Omar quietly deletes inaccurate attack on students from Covington Catholic

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The only thing worse than a malicious lie is the people who try to keep it alive even after it has been thoroughly discredited.

And that’s exactly what Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., did Tuesday evening when she repeated a series of disproven allegations leveled against a group of Covington Catholic High School students who attended the March for Life last week. They were falsely accused this weekend of “mobbing” Nathan Phillips, a Native American protester — footage of the incident shows otherwise.

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