Trump Mocks Muslim Lawmaker Omar a Day After Death Threat Arrest
- President tells Jewish audience Omar ‘doesn’t like Israel’
- NY man charged Friday with threatening call to Omar’s office
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President Donald Trump made a sarcastic reference to Representative Ilhan Omar during a speech in Las Vegas, a day after prosecutors said a New York man was arrested for threatening to murder the freshman Minnesota Democrat.
Trump snuck in the line about Omar minutes into a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition as he ran through a list of Republican lawmakers and others supportive of Israel.