(Hill) Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Wednesday that criticisms of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from President Trump and her other critics are “trafficking in Islamophobia.”
“The criticisms of Congresswoman Omar, what Donald Trump has been saying about her, is reprehensible, it is trafficking in Islamophobia, and it should be condemned by everyone,” Booker, a 2020 presidential candidate, said at Wednesday’s She the People presidential forum in Texas.
“This kind of selective condemnation should be a chorus of people condemning. And more than this, the kind of language our president uses, especially about black women in power … it is toxic,” he continued. “It fuels the kind of hate we see in our communities manifesting itself in the kind of terrorism that has been seen in our nation since 9/11.”
