The View’s Meghan McCain lamented that President Trump’s “xenophobic” attacks against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar prevent her from being able to criticize the congresswoman for her policy beliefs.
McCain’s comments, which happened on Thursday’s show, came a day after the president launched the latest in a string of attacks against Omar and her progressive colleagues. During Trump’s rally in North Carolina, the crowd jeered, “Send her back!” while the president disparaged Omar.
“Everyone at this table, and I think, people that watch this show or have ever seen the dumpster fire that was my interview with Seth Meyers know I have been one of Ilhan Omar’s most vocal critics on her policy regarding Israel,” McCain declared. “Regarding some of her comments I and many others interpreted as anti-Semitic.”
“But the problem right now is, you’re taking away my agency to criticize her policy,” she continued. “You’re making this so much about race, xenophobia, racism. I think any time you’re hitting in a territory where you’re telling any American citizen who is of a different color than you, to send them back, I too didn’t think this is something I would see in my country, especially when we’re going into 2020.”
As McCain referenced, she has previously been quick to criticize the congresswoman for comments she’s deemed anti-Semitic.
