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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Sun Apr 4, 2021, 06:40 PM Apr 2021

GOP Rep. Greg Murphy Slammed for Invoking 9/11 While Tagging Ilhan Omar in Deleted Tweet

Representative Greg Murphy, a North Carolina Republican, received backlash after he invoked the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in a since-deleted Twitter response to Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar's condolences over the death of a Capitol Police officer after the Friday attack targeting the U.S. Capitol.

Omar, who is Muslim and represents Minnesota, has routinely faced Islamophobic and racist attacks since she became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress back in 2018. Memes and baseless conspiracy theories have circulated widely within right-wing circles falsely connecting her to Islamist terrorist groups and suggesting that she was somehow associated with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer's family and the entire Capitol Police force. The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife," Omar tweeted on Friday after the attack.

On Saturday, Murphy responded to her post, writing: "Would have been worse @Ilhan if they had been flying planes into the buildings also." Although the tweet has since been deleted, local media in North Carolina published screenshots on Sunday.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-greg-murphy-slammed-for-invoking-9-11-while-tagging-ilhan-omar-in-deleted-tweet/ar-BB1fiyjJ?li=BBnb7Kz

Nothing like a little good old fashioned Republican racism.

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GOP Rep. Greg Murphy Slammed for Invoking 9/11 While Tagging Ilhan Omar in Deleted Tweet (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
Are any Repuke congressman NOT SCUMBAGS???? AZ8theist Apr 2021 #1
Murphy is the scumbag in my district we got in place of Walter Jones when Jones passed GoodRaisin Apr 2021 #3
I feel your pain.. AZ8theist Apr 2021 #4
Party of Trash JI7 Apr 2021 #2

GoodRaisin

(8,886 posts)
3. Murphy is the scumbag in my district we got in place of Walter Jones when Jones passed
Sun Apr 4, 2021, 08:25 PM
Apr 2021

away. Jones often voted with the Democrats even though he was Republican.

Murphy is a hardcore Trump ass kisser.

AZ8theist

(5,339 posts)
4. I feel your pain..
Sun Apr 4, 2021, 08:30 PM
Apr 2021

My rep here in AZ is Andy Biggs, chairman of the House Fascist Caucus. A leader of the TREASONOUS INSURRECTION.

If he had his way, he would like nothing more than to become a slave-holding NAZI.

And I'm NOT EXAGERATING.

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