During a testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar grilled Trump administration official Elliott Abrams, accusing the diplomat of being a liar and pressing him on his involvement in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair and killings in Central America during the Reagan administration – WITHOUT ALLOWING HIM TO RESPOND.
“I don’t understand why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful,” she said.
This was a part of the exchange: Omar: “Yes or no, do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch?”
Abrams: “That is a ridiculous question”
Omar: “Yes or no?”
Abrams: “No!”
Omar: “I will take that as a ‘yes’”
Meanwhile, many are still demanding Omar’s removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her anti-Semitic tweets.
Unless Representative Omar resigns from Congress, at minimum Democrat leaders should remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. pic.twitter.com/xivvu45pSs
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) February 13, 2019
Hi @realDonaldTrump–
You have trafficked in hate your whole life—against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you? https://t.co/EqqTyjkiNE
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) February 13, 2019
Ilhan Omar explodes at CNN over anti-Semitism scandal
Omar: “Are you serious? What is wrong with you?”
Manu Raju: “I’m asking you a question about your tweet…saying [Trump] trafficked in hate”
Omar: “Yes I tweeted, and there’s a response. You can run that. Have a nice day” pic.twitter.com/pR7fxederX
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 13, 2019
Abrams, the Trump administration’s Special Envoy to Venezuela, told the committee he believes increasing international pressure will eventually lead to the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro.
Abrams did not predict when Maduro would step down. But he said “a storm is brewing” inside his government and the Venezuelan leader “will not be able to weather it much longer.”
Abrams testified comes about a month after the U.S. took the unusual step of recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president.
He told lawmakers that U.S. oil sanctions are starting to bite the economically devastated country and are expected to cause oil production to be cut in half by the end of the year.
Abrams urged Venezuelan security forces to rise up against Maduro.
Once again, the people of Venezuela have taken to the streets in support of a peaceful democratic transition to Interim President Juan Guaido. It is time for the Venezuelan military high command to stand alongside its people, not with Maduro’s Cuban patrons. pic.twitter.com/8KS7zZzfb2
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) February 13, 2019
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12 Responses
This wich can not put one word in front of the next. Iran corta and farthered values.
It’s very simple
This is what the country gets when the normal people are to lazy to come out and vote during a non presidential “off year”
While it may not have been the most appropriate way to ask the question (I’ve heard worse from both parties), she was asking a legitimate question.
What a witch.
Antisemitic, American-hating radical Muslim can come to US from hostile country, get into Congress and start dictating US foreign policy? Something wrong with this picture.
Bad decision on her part to go in front of a camera. Now the country knows that she is functionally illiterate, as well as a racist. Not a single grammatically correct sentence in the bunch! Without the notes that one of her aides wrote for her, she would have had nothing to say.
This women is a poison for the Jewish Community. The US Democrats did open largely the door for her and for Islam.
It corresponds to the new (black) face of the antisemitism all around the World.
Nikki Haley would have answered her so perfectly, Ms Ilhan Omar would have been speechless, and tuned blue (and white, Israeli flag colors).
Abraham Mansson- you are a racist and you it very comfortably in the Republican party.
rabbiofberlin, stop preaching us your phony virtue signalling “morality”. If your are a real “rabbi” of berlin, please stay there and preach your love for all Jew-haters there.
Abrams is a convicted war criminal. Has everyone forgotten that fact?
Mrs. “Israel has hypnotized the word” Omar shows her true feelings about America in this attack on Abrams. What chutzpah for her to proclaim that whatever he will answer will not be truthful before questioning him! Her evil nature came out right after the word “massacre” when she asked “Do you think that massacre [smirk] was a fabulous achievement?” He answers “no” and she takes it as a yes! Shame on the Democrats for allowing her to remain on the Foreign Affairs Panel.