Republicans, rightwing figures and foreign politicians have seized upon the video despite proof the lawmaker was misquoted

  • FuglyDuck
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    11511 months ago

    The Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, has gone furthest in her response to the clip, calling Omar a “foreign agent in our government”. Greene, a leading supporter of Donald Trump, who also attempted to censure the Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib in November, called Omar a “terrorist sympathizer” on X last week, adding: “Somalian first. Muslim second. She never mentions America.”

    I vote we should be allowed to see ALL donors of ALL politicians. full disclosure. And ban super-PACS altogether. We’ll see whose the foreign agent.

    • @fluxion
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      4611 months ago

      We already voted on that bill. The Republicans voted against it, for some reason.

      • @beckerist
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        2211 months ago

        on first.

        What’s on second.

        I don’t know is on third

      • FuglyDuck
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        111 months ago

        How many book sales are a form of getting around suspicious reporting, though? They write (or have shadow writers write) a book; sell them in bulk to… “super pacs” or whatevers; which are entirely funded by… russians, chineese, american oligarchs, etc.

        They also report late, or not at all. (Mike Johnson doesn’t have a bank account? interesting.)

    • @crystalmerchant
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      Do something about that ratfuck Bob Menendez first