Trump attacked a Muslim parliamentarian and opened a new controversy

WASHINGTON.- The President of

United States,

Donald Trump,

It is the subject of a new controversy after the publication on its social networks of a video that can be read
direct attack on a parliamentarian
Muslim The Republican, who, as soon as he came to power, vetoed migration to several countries, many of them citizens of that country.
religion, issued a speech of this Democratic official with images of terrorist attacks on the twin towers and the phrase: "NEVER FORGET".

The video contains an excerpt from a recent speech in which, before the Council on American and Islamic Relations, Omar said that "some people did something" (in connection with the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center) and that was the phrase that generated the president's indignation. In fact, critics accuse Omar of offering a simplistic description of the attackers who perpetrated the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people.

While neither the tweet nor the video of
Trump included Omar's full quote or the context of his comments, which dealt with the feeling of hostility felt by Muslims after the attacks, received over 9 million hits yesterday at noon.

The reaction of the Democrats did not take long. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi denounced Trump's tweet as an incitement to violence against Omar. In addition, he asked to delete the video and announced measures to protect the legislator.

Pelosi, traveling to London, issued a statement in which he had warned that he had spoken to congressional authorities after Trump's tweet "to make sure that the Capitol police were conducting an badessment of their measures to protect Omar's representative, your family and your staff. "" The authorities will continue to monitor the threats they face, "he added.

He also called on Trump to denounce such threats. "The president's words carry a lot of weight, and his incendiary and hateful rhetoric creates a real danger, the president must erase this disrespectful and dangerous video," he said.

On her side and an hour ago, a spokeswoman said the president was not trying to incite violence against Omar. Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary, said Trump had a duty to point out the comments of the Minnesota Democrat. He added that Trump did not want any "bad wishes" on the part of a Muslim congressman.

However, Democratic leaders were convinced that what the president wanted, was to imply that the legislator had rejected the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Defense

Omar said his remarks could not be taken out of context and that his speech was a call to protect the rights of American Muslims who, after the attack, began to lose their freedoms. "We are condemned to live as second-clbad citizens and every Muslim citizen of this country should be tired for this reason," said the parliamentarian at the conference.

"Congress has a duty to respond to the president's explicit attack," said Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. "Ilhan's life is in danger because keeping his colleagues, is making himself an accomplice to let Congress become an objective," wrote the parliamentarian.

"Ilhan Omar is a leader who has strength and courage," said senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. "He will not be overwhelmed by Trump's racism and hatred, and the disgusting and dangerous attacks against him must stop," he added.

AP and ANSA agencies.