Far-left ‘Squad’ Representative Ilhan Omar had a town hall meeting interrupted by protesters upset with her for supporting tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine and pushing the country to the brink of nuclear war with Russia.
The incident is similar to an earlier episode when far-left socialist AOC had her town hall crashed by progressives upset that she bent the knee and supported billions to Ukraine.
“You are supposed to be a progressive Democrat,” a man in the video can be heard yelling toward Omar. “Anti-war.”
“$80 billion to Ukraine is not anti-war,” he added.
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Ilhan Omar Shouts Back at Protesters
Ilhan Omar (D-MN) defended her actions during the altercation and later on social media by describing the protesters as “dangerous propagandists.”
“We are helping little children like me,” she responded, an apparent reference to her fleeing war-torn Somalia as a child.
“There are little children whose lives are being lost,” Omar said, her voice growing more high-pitched.
“Unless you are someone like me that has been that child, you do not get to tell me what my votes mean and how I get to vote in supporting people,” she shouted back.
With little, if any, oversight for the military aid being sent to Ukraine, there is no evidence that the funds are directly aiding children in the region as the war with Russia wages on.
Most of it is described as military aid.
Omar took to social media afterward to claim the protesters are not anti-war, but rather, “dangerous propagandists who are literally making a mockery of the anti-war movement.”
She dismissed the protests as fomenters of Russian disinformation, as has become the norm for Democrats who suddenly have an insatiable thirst for war.
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Progressive Caucus Cowers in Fear
The Political Insider reported last week that lawmakers from both parties are reportedly seeking to lock in a staggering $50 billion in additional military aid for Ukraine before a new Congress is sworn in this January.
That will be on top of the $12 billion in aid to Ukraine approved by Congress approved last month.
On top of the Senate passing a $40 billion aid package in May.
On top of the $14 billion aid package in March.
No worries though. That’s all for the children, according to Omar.
Omar has previously expressed skepticism about where the aid is going and worried about the “size and scope” of the support being sent to Ukraine.
“The consequences of flooding Ukraine with a billion dollars in [American] weapons, likely not limited to just military-specific equipment but also including small arms + ammo, are unpredictable & likely disastrous,” she tweeted.
“Specially (sic) when they are given to paramilitary groups without accountability.”
That’s still exactly the case, which makes Omar’s 180 all the more pathetic.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, on which Omar serves as Whip, embarrassingly retracted a letter to the White House encouraging President Joe Biden to look for a diplomatic path to peace between Ukraine and Russia.
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Breitbart reported that “Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), withdrew on Tuesday a 30-Democrat letter calling for President Joe Biden to negotiate with Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine. The group of 30 House progressives, led by Jayapal, issued the letter to ask Biden to take provide a more ‘proactive diplomatic push’ to negotiate the end of the conflict with Russia. The proposal would tie military and financial aid to Ukraine. ‘If there is a way to end the war while preserving a free and independent Ukraine, it is America’s responsibility to pursue every diplomatic avenue to support such a solution that is acceptable to the people of Ukraine,’ the House leftists wrote in the letter to Biden.”
In addition to Congresswoman Jayapal, some of the other “progressives” who signed onto the now-rescinded letter were Ro Khanna (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Rep Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), among others.
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