On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) stated that she reposted a video saying Charlie Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein and assassinated by his own monster “Because there were a lot of things in the video that I did agree with. Obviously, we share videos, we don’t have to agree with every single word, but I do believe he was a reprehensible, hateful man.”
Host Kaitlan Collin asked, “There was a town hall that you had six days ago. You called Kirk a ‘hateful man,’ and you had reposted a video that I’m sure you’ve seen, you’ve taken criticism for. It’s a video that called him a reprehensible human being and said Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein and his monster shot him through the neck. Why repost that video?”
Omar responded, “Because there were a lot of things in the video that I did agree with. Obviously, we share videos, we don’t have to agree with every single word, but I do believe he was a reprehensible, hateful man. Like, that is my view of the words that he has said about every single identity that I belong to. He didn’t believe that we should have equal access to anything. He also just didn’t even believe I could be smart enough, I could have thoughts that could be equal to a white man.”
Omar also said, “I condemn political violence, and I obviously condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” And “I put out a tweet right when he was killed that political violence is wrong and that we should work everything within our power to end gun violence in this country.”
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