Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., struck back at President Donald Trump after he took a swipe at her understanding of the Constitution. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Although Trump did not mention Omar by name, Trump took a shot at Omar as he criticized other Democrats like Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas in a Monday interview with Fox News.
"I look at somebody who comes from Somalia where they don't have anything, they don't have police, they don't have military, they don't have anything. All they have is crime," Trump said in the clip. "And she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly indicated that Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar should return to Somalia, but told reporters in September that Somalia didn’t want her back. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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However, Omar said that the story was not true.
"From denying Somalia had a president to making up a story, President Trump is a lying buffoon," Omar said. "No one should take this embarrassing fool seriously."
Omar's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
When asked for comment about Omar's statement, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital: "President Trump is right."
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Omar’s family fled Somalia for a refugee camp in Kenya during the Somalian Civil War in 1991. The U.S. granted her family asylum, and they lived in Arlington, Virginia, starting in 1995. The congresswoman obtained citizenship in the United States in the year 2000.
She was elected to Minnesota’s House of Representatives in 2016 and then in 2018 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the first Somali–American woman and one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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