Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday fired back at Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) suggestion that “maybe Somalia can take you back,” calling the South Carolinian not “well or smart.”
The back-and-forth came as Mace promoted her resolution to censure Omar and remove her from her committee assignments after Mace charged the Minnesota Democrat “smeared Charlie Kirk and implied he was to blame for his own murder” in an interview with Mehdi Hasan and by reposting a video blaming Kirk’s rhetoric for contributing to his own assassination.
Mace also highlighted a 2022 post from Omar expressing that the First Amendment does not protect people from consequences such as being shamed or shunned for speech.
“If you celebrate murder, maybe Somalia can take you back,” Mace wrote in a post on the social