Rep. Ilhan Omar said President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on her and on Somali Americans have directly fueled threats against her life, arguing that his rhetoric follows a familiar pattern of what she described as "boilerplate xenophobia" that escalates real-world danger.
In an interview with The Guardian, Omar said Trump's recent remarks at a rally in Pennsylvania—where he mocked her hijab, repeated a false claim that she married her brother, and told supporters she should be expelled from the country—were "vile" and reflected "a really unhealthy and creepy obsession."
