On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said that people are getting fired for sharing Charlie Kirk’s words and she hasn’t seen anyone celebrating his assassination, she’s “just seen people sharing his words.” And “I extend grace to his wife and kids. I cannot imagine what they are going through, but the reality is that his wife sat by him as he said those things and did not tell him that these are human beings who you are calling garbage, who you are saying they don’t have the brain power because they were born in a different skin color.”
Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “[T]he way former President Obama put it, he also said he thought that Charlie Kirk’s ideas and views were wrong, but he said, and I’m quoting Obama now, we have to extend grace to people during their period of mourning and shock. Does he have a point?”
Omar responded, “Yeah. I extend grace to his wife and kids. I cannot imagine what they are going through, but the reality is that his wife sat by him as he said those things and did not tell him that these are human beings who you are calling garbage, who you are saying they don’t have the brain power because they were born in a different skin color. Like, I do not understand how we are okay as a society with people who say that about our fellow Americans, a fellow human being and regard them as a hero. I’m sorry, I don’t see it.”
Omar added, “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.”
At the start of the interview, she stated, “I condemn political violence, and I obviously condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”
Later, Omar said people “are getting fired for sharing Charlie’s words.”
Collins then said, “Well, and some people were celebrating it. That was part of it.”
Omar responded, “I haven’t seen that. I’ve just seen people sharing his words.”
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