The House on Thursday approved a resolution that was originally aimed at rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for tweets many said were anti-Semitic.
But the final Democratic resolution passed by the House made no mention of Omar. Instead, it condemned anti-Semitism as “hateful expressions of intolerance,” without saying who might have made such comments.
The final measure, offered by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., also made a point of condemning many other forms hate speech.
But in January, when the House wanted to rebuke a Republican for reportedly asking how terms like “white nationalist” came to be seen as offensive, Democrats wrote a resolution that named King.
“Whereas, on January 10, 2019, Representative Steve King was quoted as asking, ‘White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?'” that resolution said.
King was the only House lawmaker to vote “present” on the resolution that rebuked Omar without naming her. Late Thursday, he was arguing that he never said the words about white nationalism that he was quoted saying in the New York Times.
“All evidence points to King never using the words quoted in the NY Times,” he tweeted.
All evidence points to King never using the words quoted in the NY Times. @DiamondandSilk spent hours digging into the facts. Now they know the truth. Here is the proof: https://t.co/V4D1Q70cFp https://t.co/iPxlqTRvdv
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 7, 2019
