Ilhan Omar: US Turning Into ‘One of the Worst Countries’
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) seems to believe the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.” Omar criticized the Trump administration in an interview last week over the deployment of the U.S. military to the…
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) seems to believe the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.”
Omar criticized the Trump administration in an interview last week over the deployment of the U.S. Military to the streets of Los Angeles amid protests. This occurred the same week as the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. As The Hill pointed out, the parade fell on the same day as President Donald Trump’s birthday.
“To be coming out of our country, I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that,” Omar said. “To have democracy, a beacon of hope for the world to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries where the Military