On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said that she reposted a video saying Charlie Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein and assassinated by his personal monster “Because there have been numerous issues within the video that I did agree with. Obviously, we share movies, we don’t need to agree with each single phrase, however I do imagine he was a reprehensible, hateful man.”
Host Kaitlan Collin requested, “There was a city corridor that you just had six days in the past. You known as Kirk a ‘hateful man,’ and also you had reposted a video that I’m certain you’ve seen, you’ve taken criticism for. It’s a video that known as him a reprehensible human being and stated Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein and his monster shot him by means of the neck. Why repost that video?”
Omar responded, “Because there have been numerous issues within the video that I did agree with. Obviously, we share movies, we don’t need to agree with each single phrase, however I do imagine he was a reprehensible, hateful man. Like, that’s my view of the phrases that he has stated about each single identification that I belong to. He didn’t imagine that we must always have equal entry to something. He additionally simply didn’t even imagine I might be good sufficient, I may have ideas that might be equal to a white man.”
Omar additionally stated, “I condemn political violence, and I clearly condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” And “I put out a tweet proper when he was killed that political violence is flawed and that we must always work the whole lot inside our energy to finish gun violence on this nation.”
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