(PolitiFact) President Donald Trump seized on four words out of a much longer speech by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to launch a blistering political attack about Sept. 11.
Omar is one of two Muslim women serving in Congress and a vocal proponent of Muslim rights.
To describe the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Omar said, “some people did something.” We went back to her original speech to find the offending phrase. Here’s what we found:
“For too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen, and, frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it.
“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
