Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar hit back at President Trump, claiming that the president has always been inherently racist.
The freshman congresswoman discussed the president at the Muslim Caucus Education Collective’s 2019 Conference on Tuesday morning. Her comments come amid a feud between prominent progressive freshmen members of Congress and the president that has been going on for more than a week now.
“People will say, his remarks are racist and we will forget the inherent racism that has always been part of him,” Omar said.
“And how much he always takes the opportunity to others, to vilify them and destroy their existence and ability to access our justice system, even when we think back to the exonerated Central Park Five, young boys,” she continued. “Going out of your way to ask for lynching for five innocent young men, boys, and to have the full support of society and the media to say this is okay, someone is just angry to be calling for the lynching of young people makes it recognize how we got here today.”
This is not the first time Trump has been accused of being racist. Those calls regained steam earlier this month when he suggested that Omar and her liberal colleagues should go back to their home countries if they aren’t happy in the United States.
