Trump promotes unfounded Ilhan Omar conspiracy and shares claim Justin Trudeau 'assumes submissive position' with him
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Trump promotes unfounded Ilhan Omar conspiracy and shares claim Justin Trudeau 'assumes submissive position' with him
Chris Riotta, The Independent 23 hours ago 
Donald Trump unleashed a series of controversial late-night tweets from the G7 Summit in France over the weekend, reigniting his feud with Ilhan Omar and attacking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau .
The president promoted an unfounded and incendiary claim purported by the far right online that Ms Omar, a Democratic congresswoman of colour and former refugee from Somalia, married her brother years before she took office in 2018.
Mr Trump retweeted a video shared by the conservative group Judicial Watch claiming there was “credible evidence” the 37-year-old politician married her sibling, while calling on “federal officials and law enforcement to investigate her”.
“It’s so bad in terms of the documentary evidence, we can’t even be confident her last name is Omar,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told Breitbart in the video shared to Twitter on Sunday.
“It’s that crazy,” he added, before attributing evidence about the details of Ms Omar’s wedding to the conservative Powerline blog. “There’s all this evidence that has been out there, basically her hometown newspaper has confirmed the reporting of the Powerline blog.”
Mr Fitton concluded it was “well past time for federal officials and law enforcement to investigate” Ms Omar and for the US House of Representatives to “get on the ball as well with an ethics investigation”.
The claims Mr Trump helped spread have in fact not been confirmed and were described as “disgusting lies” by Ms Omar.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune did not confirm the Powerline blog's reporting, as Mr Fitton claimed, but instead said it was not able to reach a complete conclusion during its investigation into Ms Omar’s wedding.
“It seemed clear that there is some kind of personal relationship between” Ms Omar and her ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the newspaper’s political editor Kevin Diaz told Politifact . “But whether they are family or not, we can’t tell. We weren’t able to come close to determining whether that was the truth. And frankly, we were wary of drawing any conclusions.”
Ms Omar has shot down the rumours, which seemingly stemmed from old social media posts that have since been shared by right-wing circles on the internet. The newspaper said its evidence largely came from those social media posts.
“It’s really strange, right, to prove a negative,” Ms Omar told the Associated Press in 2018. “If someone was asking me, do I have a brother by that name, I don’t."
The president also retweeted an image of him and Mr Trudeau shared by Canadian media personality Ezra Levant that said the Canadian prime minister “assumes a submissive position — politically, and even physically” when meeting with Mr Trump.
“No, we actually had a very good and productive meeting,” Mr Trump wrote along with the picture, adding: “Nice!”
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The posts arrived as Mr Trump was meeting with economic world powers at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France over the weekend. On Monday, the president missed a climate meeting with the economic world powers, delayed a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel by two hours, according to the Associated Press , and told reporters he was considering holding next year’s summit at his private golf resort in Miami, Florida.
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Ms Omar has shot down the rumours, which seemingly stemmed from old social media posts that have since been shared by right-wing circles on the internet. The newspaper said its evidence largely came from those social media posts.
That seems to be where the gop/republicans get all their 'facts', from social media.
We've seen many post those fallacious conspiracy theories here on NT with zero regard for truth. So far as I can tell, she has made a handful of comments and tweets that inferred old anti-Semitic tropes so its not like she should be free of criticism, but making bogus claims about her citizenship or repeating uncorroborated stories of marrying her brother and other bullshit was despicable. It was the same tactic used against Hillary, take one or two kernels of truth and then add a thousand pounds of bullshit and tweet and retweet it on social media with fake bot accounts and "Poof!" you have the makings of a perfect smear campaign, truth be damned. It's sad that some seem to truly believe the ends justify the means, that abandoning truth, morals, facts and reason just to chalk up a win over an opponent is worth it. They should be ashamed, but we all know they have no shame left.
Fox news does that as well. I have been in one of their, "chat rooms" and a post from an obvious trump supporter will pop up with 30 likes, at the same moment it's posted. They do it to swing the narrative if trump is taking a beating.
It's the 'president' who is submissive to those like Putin, Un, and any other authoritarian.
Mr. Trudeau is not submissive to this shitstain of a 'president'
I guess that picture of Melania and Trudeau really set Trump off, heh!
But it's interesting that he's fantasizing about having anal sex with Trudeau. Guess he wants to beat Melania to Trudeau's bed.
Trumps wife evidently has a different opinion of Trudeau.
She should have fucked him, not like her husband could complain. But yea, she was crushing on him hard.
Mr. Trudeau has morals and decency and wouldn't cheat on his wife with that whore.
True..
She's imagining herself being held by something other than Trumps baby hands trying to force her to eat his baby carrot...
Yeah I'm sure she's thinking, why can't Donald look like you?
She looks pretty hag like in that photo, even with all the plastic surgery.
A lot like Ivanka gazing at Trudeau in the past, like she's thinking, 'why can't daddy look like you?'
" It seemed clear that there is some kind of personal relationship between” Ms Omar and her ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi , the newspaper’s political editor Kevin Diaz told Politifact . “ But whether they are family or not , we can’t tell . We weren’t able to come close to determining whether that was the truth. And frankly, we were wary of drawing any conclusions.”
It's "Clear" before it "wasn't" ?
I hear that "Reporting" doesn't require any "Investigation" ….. I guess !
So much for this article being able to claim "Trumps Tweet" about Omar was false" !
But what the Hell. Just throw the "Possibility" out there anyway !
Trudeau is an "I can Feel myself …. REAL Good " idiot...… Just Push it "mon ami" and/or "mon amie" ….. just PUSH IT !!!!!!
I guess I missed them at the G-7... What the fuck are you even talking about?
I "Feel" your self induced pain.
Read the article ! sheeeeeesh !
What ItIsMe is commenting on is from the article itself though his video is off topic, and his remarks about Trudeau are nonsense, but they won't be removed.
Who the fuck wouldn't have a personal relationship with their ex-husband?
From some nonsense rag or blog I'm sure.
The Video isn't Off Topic on the Trudeau comment of mine !
Yes it is off topic.
From your own "Seeded" article:
"Mr Trudeau shared by Canadian media personality Ezra Levant that said the Canadian prime minister “assumes a submissive position — politically, and even physically” .
Trudeau is in the article, and we have all read about Trudeau and his Wimpy antics on the news.
It's off topic.
Your video is off topic.
It's called "Artistic Lisc.".
I like "Art".....more "Sue".....but "Art" is still great !
After all, art is EVERYTHING, no matter how Weird, Odd, Disruptive, inclusive, intrusive or gross !
" It seemed clear that there is some kind of personal relationship between” Ms Omar and her ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi , the newspaper’s political editor Kevin Diaz told Politifact . “ But whether they are family or not , we can’t tell . We weren’t able to come close to determining whether that was the truth. And frankly, we were wary of drawing any conclusions.”
The 'president' re-tweeted an unverified nonsense bullshit social media post about Ms. Omar being married to her brother and whatever rag these morons are for, are also pushing unverified bullshit.
"New Evidence Supports Claims That Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother"
Even Snopes can't say Yay or Nay !
Where is Omar on this ?
After All, She's sooooo good at going after everything else !
Reasoning: Extreme Right, Poor Sourcing, Conspiracy Theories, Anti-Islam, Lack of Transparency
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 45/180
Surprise, surprise, you used a far 'right' source to support the bogus claim regarding Ms. Omar.
Doesn't make them Wrong on this !
Was "WE" able to prove them wrong ?
Yes it does.
You have proven nothing correct.
The surprise would have been if he didnt.
I'm pretty sure I have a personal relationship with my spouse and he is my family.
what kind of nimrod reporters do they have at Politifact?
Where ?
Surprise, Surprise ! It would be a big surprise, if you knew me to actually use any "Wing" thingy as an "End All" when I comment.
On this subject, it's all over the place, with the one being accused keeping her mouth shut.
Hmmmmmm….. Is Silence "Golden" and make one "Innocent", or does "Silence" actually make one "Guilty" !
It doesnt take a lot of effort to find out if you are posting from a conspiracy site. Usually all you have to do is open your eyes.
Ditto !
I can claim that Trump has sex with Putin and Kim. Can you prove that to be wrong? Anyone can claim whatever they want - and a source like the one you used clearly shouldn't be taken seriously if it makes claims it can't back up with proof.
Trump said NO !
What has Omar said again ?
lol.
You sound like Trump "no, you're the puppet". Its uncanny how his supporters emulate him.
Didn't see "Puppet" used in any of my comments.
Are you just "Projecting/PROTECTING" ……. AGAIN ?
Why would/should Ms. Omar continue to deny such nonsense?
You mean you've read claims that someone has actually asked Trump if he had sex with Putin or Kim? What type of websites do you visit, anyway? Just .. wow.
This came from the posted article. Did you not bother reading it? So, if Trump says No, you believe it (despite him being a pathological liar) - but if a liberal says No, they're automatically lying?
You're all about investigating anyone who's a liberal, but when a Republican like Trump does something that is CLEARLY unethical, you don't give a crap. So stop pretending you're sitting on some kind of moral high ground, when you support the most corrupt President either of us have seen in our lifetimes.
Yes !
It was on NT and The name of the one that said it was katrix.
"Ms Omar has shot down the rumours"
This came from the posted article. Did you not bother reading it?"
Link ?
'The claims Mr Trump helped spread have in fact not been confirmed and were described as “disgusting lies” by Ms Omar.'
'Ms Omar has shot down the rumours, which seemingly stemmed from old social media posts that have since been shared by right-wing circles on the internet. The newspaper said its evidence largely came from those social media posts.'
Why would you need a link from the article posted above?
This part? :
"Ms Omar told the Associated Press in 2018. “If someone was asking me, do I have a brother by that name, I don’t."
So "Adamant" is she !
This came from the posted article. Did you not bother reading it? So, if Trump says No, you believe it (despite him being a pathological liar) - but if a liberal says No, they're automatically lying?'
You conveniently left out this part:
“It’s really strange, right, to prove a negative,” Ms Omar told the Associated Press in 2018. “If someone was asking me, do I have a brother by that name, I don’t."
Did you read comment #5.2.20 ?
There was NO "Shoot Down" by her. Just a timid "Statement" !
The "Liberal" media has a way of Sensationalizing as "great", "Timid Simple" words when they "Like" someone.
You claim that Trump said No to that question. So now you're pretending Trump is on NT?
So if she doesn't go into a hysterical fit screaming NO NO NO you believe unfounded claims you read on your conspiracy sites?
It's a stupid rumor that your idiotic right wing fellow conspirators made up, and you expect it to be taken far more seriously than it deserves. All the while ignoring outright PROVEN unethical behavior by your orange idol.
I can't stand Ms Omar but you are being absolutely ridiculous here.
Stupid comments look even dumber when written so poorly, btw.
Are you sure he is not?
I'm the ridicules one ?
Who writes these "Reports" ? It Is Me, or the one that actually writes them ?
"Stupid comments look even dumber when written so poorly, btw"
Now was that nice to write ? Whose comment is the "Really" Dumb looking one now ?
Trump says "He's not in Bed" with Putin all the time. Don't you watch the news.
Probably she only watched MSNBC and CNN. Not real news.
Did you read comment 5.2.21 where you left out “It’s really strange, right, to prove a negative,” Ms Omar told the Associated Press in 2018. “If someone was asking me, do I have a brother by that name, I don’t."
Apparently that was a "timid" statement - I guess because she didn't start insulting the idiots who made up this bullshit.