Trump Campaign Aide: Omar Endangering Herself With ‘Ill-Thought-Out Words’

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Marc Lotter, director of strategic communications for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, said that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is endangering herself with her “ill-thought-out words.”

“I don’t think it is the President putting her in danger,” Lotter said Monday on CNN. “It is her ill-thought-out words she used to describe the greatest terror attack on the history of United States soil which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. Those are her words. That’s what’s making the threats.”

Omar said Sunday that she’s faced increased death threats after Trump tweeted a video portraying her as dismissive of the 9/11 attacks.

Her initial comments were meant to convey that Muslims faced increasing levels of discrimination after the terrorist attacks.

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  1. If some right-wing lunatic actually makes an assassination attempt, I expect Fox and Trump will be falling over themselves to blame the victim, that it’s her fault for saying anything which could be misconstrued and taken out of context.

    Pelosi, clock’s ticking on the impeachment stuff, I know it was too early a month ago, but when the President is egging people on to kill lawmakers, pretty sure that meets high crimes and misdemeanors…

  2. Marc Lotter, director of strategic communications lying, bullshit and propaganda …

  3. Yep, we wouldn’t be encouraging attacks on her if she hadn’t endangered herself.

  4. Yes, we can’t have people saying “Ill-Thought-Out Words”…

    And this is coming from the Trump Campaign…

  5. Right…we ‘know’ those Deplorables would NEVER put 2+2 together and think Donnie is inciting violence with a 9/11 video superimposed on a pix of Omar. NEVER. It’s all HER fault.

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