(Politico) President Donald Trump said Monday that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s suggestion that pro-Israel lawmakers have an allegiance to a foreign country marks a “dark day for Israel,” piling on to the Minnesota freshman.
“Representative Ilhan Omar is again under fire for her terrible comments concerning Israel,” the president tweeted, pointing out that a slew of Jewish advocacy groups had urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) to remove Omar from the latter’s high-profile committee.
The president said Omar’s comments, which accused pro-Israel lawmakers of showing “allegiance to a foreign country,” were “a dark day for Israel!”
