(PM.) Progressive “Squad” member Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was slammed on social media after a video was shared across platforms on Sunday where she said her first allegiance is to Somalian interests.
In the video, the Democrat congresswoman from Minnesota was speaking to a crowd in a Minneapolis hotel about Somaliland and the unrecognized state’s deal with Ethiopia to lease part of its coastland to Ethiopia, a landlocked country, which Somalia claims infringes on its sovereign territory.
US House Rep for Minnesota Ilhan Omar says her first allegiance is to Somalian interests.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 29, 2024
The video has English subtitles during Omar’s statements that she is in Congress to represent Somali Americans’ interests and that the “US will do what we want and nothing else.”
Former Republican Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman wrote, “Ilhan Omar is a disgraceful representative.”
Ilhan Omar is a disgraceful representative. https://t.co/bKKQIpHSbn
— Denver Riggleman (@RepRiggleman) January 29, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) posted on X that the radical “…flaunts using her position as a congresswoman to protect Somalia’s border while our border is invaded by MILLIONS of illegals who are a danger to America.”
Terrorist sympathizer Ilhan Omar in her own words: Somalian first. Muslim second. She never mentions America.
She flaunts using her position as congresswoman to protect Somalia’s border while our border is invaded by MILLIONS of illegals who are a danger to America.
These… https://t.co/94D5E6B79I
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) January 29, 2024
