Trump goes after Ilhan Omar with dramatic video using 9/11 footage

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President Trump Friday tweeted out a jarring video juxtaposing remarks last month by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., which some charged minimized the 9/11 tragedy, with archival footage of the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Writing “WE WILL NEVER FORGET,” Trump tweeted a video that repeatedly displays Omar’s reference to the terrorists as “some people” and then cuts to planes crashing into the buildings and the towers tumbling to the ground.

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