Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar’s clash is getting worse
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At a news conference Tuesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., played a tape of a death threat from an unnamed caller. “You f—— Muslim piece of s—. You jihadist. We know what you are. You’re a f—— traitor. You will not live much longer,” the man who left the voicemail said.
The disturbing message was a reminder of the heightened risks Omar faces as a prominent Somali American and Muslim lawmaker. It also indicated the stakes of her feud with right-wing firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., after video surfaced of her seemingly jokingly describing Omar as a terrorist.
The continuing fallout from the video — which has included a rancorous phone call between Boebert and Omar and other Republicans clashing over whether Boebert is in the right — has revealed that Boebert’s comments were far from an offhand joke. Instead, they represent yet another volley in the right’s increasingly brazen white nationalist culture wars in the post-Trump era.
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