The White House says the US President bears no ill will towards Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar, despite his tweeting out a video purporting to show her being dismissive of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Earlier, Ms Pelosi issued a statement saying she had spoken with congressional authorities"to ensure that Capitol Police are conducting a security assessment to safeguard Congresswoman Omar, her family and her staff".
"The President's words weigh a ton, and his hateful and inflammatory rhetoric creates real danger," she said.Tweet: Omar hits back with Bush tweet The video in Mr Trump's tweet included a snippet from a recent speech Ms Omar gave to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, in which she described the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre as"some people did something", along with news footage of the hijacked airplanes hitting the World Trade Centre in New York City.Critics accuse Ms Omar of being flippant in describing the perpetrators of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
She later sought to defend herself by tweeting a quote from former president George W. Bush, in which he referred to the attackers as"people" just days after 9/11. Neither Mr Trump's tweet nor the video included Ms Omar's full quote or the context of her comments, which were about Muslims feeling that their civil liberties had been eroded after the attacks.
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