Ilhan Omar ‘outraged the president would assassinate a foreign official’

By Spencer Neale

Published January 3, 2020 6:00pm ET

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Ilhan Omar ‘outraged the president would assassinate a foreign official’ — Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., participates in a panel during a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, in Clive, Iowa.

A day after saying Congress must “step in and stop” President Trump after he instructed U.S. forces to kill top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, Rep. Ilhan Omar said she was “outraged the president would assassinate a foreign official.”

Responding to a tweet from Sen. Ted Cruz that called Soleimani a “terrorist,” Omar, 38, used the word “foreign official” to describe one of America’s top adversaries.

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