Days after posting a horrific and dangerous tweet attacking U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar – complete with footage of the Twin Towers crumbling on 9/11 – President Donald Trump traveled to an area near the Democratic Congresswoman’s Minnesota district. It was his his first official visit to Minnesota as President, a state he narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton.
That tweet reportedly caused a spike in the number of death threats the freshman lawmaker has been receiving.
Monday night a local reporter from KSTP-TV asked President Trump if he had any “second thoughts” on the explosive tweet attacking Rep. Omar.
“No, not at all,” the American president responded.
And he didn’t stop there.
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“She’s been very disrespectful to this country,” Trump charged. “She is somebody that doesn’t really understand life, real life,” the billionaire real estate mogul insisted. “She’s got a way about her that’s very very bad for our country.”
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This article has been updated.