Speaking in yet another horrid interview, the same one in which she defended comparing Charlie Kirk to Dr. Frankenstein, far-left “Squad” Congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) went on the attack against Charlie Kirk’s widowed wife, Erika, declaring that Mrs. Kirk hadn’t criticized her husband’s positions and so was as bad as he was.
For reference, the interview in which Ilhan doubled down and kept making her horrible remarks was CNN’s “The Source,” hosted by Kaitlin Collins. In the segment in which she attacked Erika Kirk, Ilhan was sounding off on the fact that numerous leftists have been fired for making horrible remarks about his assassination, though she claimed, falsely, that no one celebrated it.
That commentary began when Kaitlin Collins asked Omar if President Obama is right, and the Democrats should lay off making horrid and incendiary remarks in public as Mr. Kirk’s supporters grieve, asking, “[T]he way former President Obama put it, he also said he thought that Charlie Kirk’s ideas and views were wrong, but he said, and I’m quoting Obama now, ‘we have to extend grace to people during their period of mourning and shock.’ Does he have a point?”
Responding, Omar claimed to be extending “grace” to Erika Kirk and her children, but then went on to insult and attack Mrs. Kirk. in vile ways, insinuating without any evidence to her point that both she and her husband were racists who took delight in attacking and demeaning non-white Americans.
Speaking on that point, Rep. Omar said, “Yeah. I extend grace to his wife and kids. I cannot imagine what they are going through, but the reality is that his wife sat by him as he said those things and did not tell him that these are human beings who you are calling garbage, who you are saying they don’t have the brain power because they were born in a different skin color.”
Continuing, Omar insisted that she would never regard Kirk as a hero because of those comments, telling Collins, “Like, I do not understand how we are okay as a society with people who say that about our fellow Americans, a fellow human being and regard them as a hero. I’m sorry, I don’t see it.”
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Omar also tried to insist that the real problem at hand here is “gun violence” that could be solved with gun control, ignoring that the firearm used was a hunting rifle of the sort that nearly no gun control proposal would ban. She said, “I put out a tweet right when he was killed that political violence is wrong and that we should work everything within our power to end gun violence in this country.”
Later on, Rep. Omar insisted that people “are getting fired for sharing Charlie’s words,” trying to explain away the fact that many leftists were celebrating Kirk’s death and were fired as a result of their reprehensible actions and comments. Pushing back, Collins said, “Well, and some people were celebrating it. That was part of it.” Ilhan snapped, “I haven’t seen that. I’ve just seen people sharing his words.”
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