Rep. Ilhan Omar added another mark to her record as one of the most hateful, depraved members of Congress on Thursday. While speaking to pro-Hamas journalist Mehdi Hasan, the Minnesota congresswoman mocked Charlie Kirk and appeared to offer justification for his assassination.
Kirk was murdered while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley State on Wednesday, with a single bullet from a high-powered rifle hitting his neck. The conservative activist leaves behind a wife and two young children, and his killer is still on the run.
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Further exposing her lack of common decency and humanity, Omar cast that aside and instead joined with Hasan to essentially argue that Kirk deserved what he got because of his "words and actions."
OMAR: What I do know for sure is that, you know, Charlie was someone who once said that, um, guns save lives after a school shooting. Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd in the hands of Minneapolis police.
HASAN: I think he called him a scumbag.
OMAR: Right, have no regard, downplay slavery, and what black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth should never exist, and I think there are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting ot have a civil debate, and...
HASAN: It's bull**** (laughs). It's a complete rewriting of history.
OMAR: Yeah, there is nothing more f-ed up than to completely pretend that his words and actions have not been recorded (laughs) and in existence for the last decade or so.
In another part of the interview, Omar said people who speak well of Kirk are "full of ****." For context, Zeteo is Hasan's "news" outlet.
I could go through this line by line and point out the inconsistencies. For example, George Floyd, no matter what one thinks about the circumstances of his death, was an objectively violent person who beat women and once held a gun to a pregnant woman's head. Is calling him a "scumbag" really an offense so awful as to mention it in relation to assassination? Because that's the implication from Omar and Hasan, and the mention of Juneteenth is even more absurd. None of what is mentioned actually paints Kirk as some kind of untenable "radical."
Yet, Omar and Hasan laugh and mock him throughout the interview, claiming he wasn't actually a supporter of civil debate when that was quite literally his entire strategy. He would go to college campuses, set up an open mic, and invite people to discuss contentious topics like abortion, transgenderism, and foreign policy. He would allow his opponents to speak, and he would respond, not in anger, but with logical consistency. Whether one ultimately agreed with him or not isn't the point. The point is that Omar and Hasan are lying when they minimize his murder by implying he somehow brought it on himself.
The broader issue here, though, is revealed in Omar's mention of "words and actions." Words are not actions, and Kirk never committed violence against anyone. He never called for acts of violence against his political opponents. The left likes to make that conflation, though, because it offers them a way to justify the worst, most violent impulses of their supporters. If someone is a "fascist" who is a "threat to democracy," then everything is on the table to stop that person.
This has to stop. People have to be able to disagree without going to these lengths to demonize each other. Certainly, you'd expect a national politician to contain herself for at least a few days following the assassination of someone she opposed. Not Omar, though. Her overwrought hubris is only matched by her faux sense of self-righteousness. This is a woman with a long history of antisemitism and who has excused the murderous rampage of Islamic terrorists. She's continually derided the nation that let her in as a refugee and gave her a life she never could have dreamed of in Somalia, the country she still pledges public loyalty to.
Her list of disgusting statements is too long to list. Yet, she believes she has the moral high ground to lecture a now-deceased Kirk and those who loved him? It's perverse.