Trump slams Ilhan Omar's 'lame' apology and calls on her to resign

President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for her anti-Semitic comments and said she should resign from Congress.

On Monday, Omar apologized for using an anti-Semitic trope on Twitter by suggesting that members of Congress were being paid by Jewish special interest groups to take a pro-Israel position. Trump called her apology "lame" and said "she didn't mean a word of it."

The president is right; Omar's apology was lame. For one thing, she waited until leadership in both parties condemned her comments before issuing this statement:

Notice that in this apology, Omar never confesses what she did wrong. Read that statement and find where she says it was wrong to tweet "It's all about the Benjamins baby" to explain why pro-Israel congressmen defend Israel and wrong to tweet that "AIPAC," the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is the lobbying group paying them for their support. She doesn't do it.

Also, as Adam Rubenstein pointed out, she equivocates while saying "I unequivocally apologize."

And just a few hours later ...

This is from the thread Ilhan Omar just retweeted. So was your earlier apology a lie or did you just not read the garbage you're spewing out? Are you "grateful" that people are "educating" you, or were those just words to get the (((media))) off your back? https://t.co/y0aHbThyfj

— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) February 11, 2019

"Lame" doesn't begin to adequately describe Omar's forced apology. She should be stripped of her committee assignments, condemned in a House resolution, and voted out of office.

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