Days before an election, with Minnesotans voting on crime, prices and the future of their neighborhoods, Democratic Rep.Ilhan Omar had to decide who she would stand beside.
She chose the far-left streamer, Hasan Piker.This is a man who said "America deserved 9/11." He called Hamas "a thousand times better" than Israel and said he would vote for Hamas "every single time." He called Orthodox Jews "inbred," waved off Hamas’s treatment of women and gay people as domestic policy he doesn’t care about, and warned this summer that if American Jews keep supporting Israel, someone "is going to come around and take action."Omar knew all of it.Everyone did.LEFTIST STREAMER TRIGGERS FURY AFTER MOCKING 'FUNNY' INJURIES TO ICE AGENTS AT ILHAN OMAR EVENT: ‘DISGUSTING’Before Monday night, when she appeared for a live conversation and Q&A event in Minneapolis titled "I'm the Host Now!", the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas called her decision to participate "a betrayal of Jewish Minnesotans." Her district includes St.
Louis Park, long the center of Jewish life in this state.Her own party’s Jewish caucus said Piker’s brand of hate has no place in Minnesota.
Sen.Amy Klobuchar, called his statements reckless and unacceptable.
Rep.Angie Craig, Rep.
Betty McCollum, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and state Sen.Ron Latz all spoke out.
Democratic leaders privately urged her to cancel.Omar’s answer? Her campaign said the Democratic Party is a "big tent" — and she walked out on stage on Oct.26, anyway.Ilhan Omar has had years to show Minnesota what kind of representative she is.
Last Monday, she answered the question herself.Once there, Piker called Republicans "terrorists." Omar called the GOP the "pedophile protection party."ILHAN OMAR'S RADICAL STREAMER ALLY RALLIES WITH EMBATTLED LAWMAKER AFTER DC HOME RAIDLet’s be clear about what this was.Not an old clip dug up by an opposition researcher.
Not a careless remark from a decade ag...