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00:00House Democrat calls out Trump's beyond weird obsession.
00:04Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar publicly criticized Donald Trump for what she described as a beyond weird fixation on her.
00:11By responding to a series of remarks he made during an affordability-themed rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania,
00:17Trump's obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
00:22Since he has no economic policies to tout, he's resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
00:27He continues to be a national embarrassment, she wrote on X.
00:31Her comments followed Trump's extended attack on her during the event,
00:35where he encouraged supporters to revive the send-her-back chant first heard at his Greenville, North Carolina rally in 2019.
00:43Trump's rally in Pennsylvania was promoted by his campaign as an affordability event,
00:47targeting voters worried about increasing prices.
00:50In his speech, he transitioned from discussing the economy to immigration,
00:54connecting the two topics and making several personal comments about Omar.
00:58According to reporting from Newsweek and Fox 9 Minneapolis,
01:02Trump referred to her by saying,
01:03Ilhan Omar, whatever her name is, with her little turban.
01:07I love her.
01:08She comes in, does nothing but,
01:10we ought to get her out.
01:11She's here illegally.
01:13The crowd responded with chants of,
01:15send her back,
01:16which Trump allowed to continue before resuming his speech.
01:18He also repeated the allegation that Omar married her brother,
01:22something he's continued to spread despite no verified evidence supporting it.
01:26Omar made her way to the United States as a refugee in 1995,
01:30and became a naturalized citizen in 2000,
01:33meaning she can't be deported under U.S. immigration law.
01:36Trump has increasingly tied affordability concerns to immigration,
01:40arguing that illegal immigration contributes to inflation.
01:43At the Pennsylvania rally,
01:45he claimed that 25 million people came into our country,
01:48totally unchecked and unvetted,
01:51a figure he has repeated at other events.
01:54His remarks about Somali immigrants follow earlier statements made during a cabinet meeting,
01:59where he said,
02:00they contribute nothing.
02:01I don't want them in our country.
02:03He later told reporters,
02:05Somalians should be out of here.
02:07These comments have drawn scrutiny from civil rights groups and lawmakers,
02:10who argue that Trump is using immigration rhetoric to energize his political base.
02:16The Hill reported that Trump has recently focused on Somali migrants in Minnesota,
02:20amid federal investigations into fraud schemes involving some individuals in the state,
02:25though Omar has not been implicated in those cases.
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