"I think my presence here should tell you that fear and intimidation doesn't work on me. The president's rhetoric, the attacks from him since I've gotten into public office has always been to stop me from being in public service, she said. To intimidate me, to make me want to quit and my only message is it hasn't worked thus far and it's not going to work in the future."
"I became a freshman who nobody should have actually known I existed because I wielded no power to having the most death threats of any member of Congress, said Omar. To the point where I had to have six Capitol Police officers providing a 24-hour detail to me and my family. And then [Joe] Biden got elected, and for four years it almost plummeted. Then"
Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unidentified liquid while speaking publicly in Minneapolis. She returned the next day to the Karmel Mall, a four-story shopping center central to the Somali community, and declared that fear and intimidation will not force her out of public service. Repeated attacks and rhetoric from Donald Trump have aimed to intimidate her and make her quit, but those efforts have failed. Omar represents Minnesota's fifth district since 2019. She called for the abolition of ICE after two Americans were killed by immigration enforcement and recalled receiving the highest number of death threats among members of Congress, requiring a six-officer 24-hour Capitol Police detail for her family.
Read at english.elpais.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]