Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert accused Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a “jihad-squad member” during a contentious censure vote.
The House of Representatives was deliberating over a censure vote against Republican Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar for a controversial tweet he sent showing an anime clip that Democrats argue promotes violence. Following deliberations, the House voted 223-207 to censure him and remove him from his committee assignments.
“The jihad-squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband, and not her brother husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds,” she said. “This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists.”
JIMMY KIMMEL SAYS LAUREN BOEBERT’S CONTENT IS ‘DUMBER THAN STEPMOTHER PORN’
Rep. @laurenboebert: “My colleague & three-month presidential candidate from Calif. [@ericswalwell], who’s on the Intelligence Committee, slept with Fang Fang, a Chinese spy. Let me say that again. A member of Congress who receives classified briefings was sleeping w/ the enemy.” pic.twitter.com/DvlQv2KjPF
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 17, 2021
Boebert referenced a report that Omar paid her husband’s political consultancy firm over $2.8 million during the 2019-2020 election cycle.
She also brought up allegations that California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell had a personal relationship with a woman who was subsequently accused of being a Chinese spy.
Swalwell is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, meaning that he had access to classified information.
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The Gosar vote is similar to action House Democrats took against Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in February.
At the time, they took a rare vote to strip Greene from her committee assignments in response to her past conspiratorial social media posts. The move was done on a near party-line division.
