Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has apparently deleted an overnight tweet going after Covington Catholic students anew, after facing a social media backlash for her comments.
Fox News reports:
Her tweet had been posted well after the initial round of misreporting on the students’ widely viewed confrontation with a Native-American elder in Washington last week. Media figures initially seized on the viral confrontation with Nathan Phillips, with an initial clip appearing to show the students antagonizing him. But additional video then emerged offering context, including that Phillips approached them amid a confrontation between the students and Black Hebrew Israelite protesters. The students pushed back on the initial criticism, and many of those critics have since retracted their statements.
But Omar on Tuesday night responded to President Trump’s tweet defending Covington student Nick Sandmann and his peers — by claiming they were taunting the black protesters despite accounts to the contrary and citing a videotaped comment about rape, though it’s unclear whether it was one of the Covington students who said it.
She wrote: “The boys were protesting a woman’s right to choose & yelled ‘it’s not rape if you enjoy it’ … They were taunting 5 Black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants … Sandmann’s family hired a right wing PR firm to write his non-apology.”
But after an avalanche of criticism, the tweet had been removed by late morning on Wednesday.
Luckily it had already been screen grabbed
Omar faced accusations of lying and distorting the facts in response to her original tweet.
Wow. This is mind-bendingly false. https://t.co/7lRJPCBHbZ
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) 23 January 2019
Vile tweet. The kid who made who made the rape comment wasn’t Covington Catholic. The black adults were viciously taunting the kids with racist and homophobic comments.
Oh and any sane kid would use PR help if he could to write the most important statement of his young life. https://t.co/WjYW1hzdwD
— David French (@DavidAFrench) 23 January 2019
You are a shameless liar!
Not only did the boys not taunt the “5 black men,” but it was actually the 5 members of the Black Hebrew Israelites who taunted not only the boys, but other black men AND women who tried to interject & stop their racial slurs against Native Americans! pic.twitter.com/OqDqxqGr0I
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) 23 January 2019
Oh yikes
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) 23 January 2019
The militant black supremacist lunatics who call themselves the Black Hebrew Israelites are a well known hate group, FYI. I’m sure you have a lot in common with them.
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) 23 January 2019
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