Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats are jumping to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar as she faces yet another wave of conservative attacks for her recent remarks on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
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By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. The controversy has also sparked a testy back-and-forth on Twitter between Ocasio-Cortez and freshman GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Navy SEAL who lost his right eye during an IED attack in Afghanistan. Crenshaw seized on Omar’s comments, calling them “unbelievable” in a Wednesday tweet.
Ocasio-Cortez also told reporters that it was “incredibly upsetting and triggering” for the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post “to elicit such an image for such a transparently and politically motivated attack on Ilhan.”
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