(Hill) A group of House Democrats called on GOP leaders Tuesday to discipline Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for a series of Islamophobic comments she’s lobbed in recent months against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and other Muslim lawmakers in Congress.
In an emotional press conference in the basement of the Capitol, Omar said she has received “hundreds” of threats on her life since joining Congress — threats “often triggered by Republican attacks on my faith.”
As evidence, Omar then took the remarkable step of playing a profane and racist voicemail she received on Monday, as her most recent feud with Boebert was gaining national attention, in which the caller characterized her as a “f—ing Muslim piece of shit” — one hellbent on “taking over our country.”
