Ilhan Omar blames Trump for anti-Semitic ‘monsters’ after synagogue attack

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., blamed President Trump Tuesday for creating racist “monsters” just days after the shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in California.

“The occupant of the White House, as my sister Ayanna likes to call him, and his allies are doing everything that they can to distance themselves and misinform the public from the monsters that they created that is terrorizing the Jewish community and the Muslim community,” Omar said Tuesday, referencing Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., at a “Black Women in Defense of Ilhan Omar” gathering.

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