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AOC urges Dan Crenshaw to back off Ilhan Omar, focus on ‘right-wing’ extremism

By Dominick Mastrangelo

Published April 11, 2019 7:06pm ET

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AOC urges Dan Crenshaw to back off Ilhan Omar, focus on ‘right-wing’ extremism — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dan Crenshaw, and Ilhan Omar | (AP photos)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended fellow freshman Democrat Ilhan Omar after she was criticized by a prominent Republican for her controversial remarks on the 9/11 attacks.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, blasted Omar, D-Minn., after she referred to the 9/11 hijackers as “some people who did something.”

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