Defend 9/11 victims? You’re “racist.”

If you were offended by Democrat Ilhan Omar’s disgusting comments about 9/11, her colleague Rashida Tlaib has a simple message for you: You’re “racist.”

Tlaib is proudly defending Omar’s disrespectful comment about a terrorist attack that claimed nearly 3,000 American lives, saying: “We speak truth!”

Question: Are Democrat Party leaders still going to remain silent while disgusting views about 9/11 are promoted by members of their party?

Watch: Democrat Rep. Tlaib Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 9/11 Comments: “She Does Speak Truth”

Transcript of Tlaib’s comments:

HALLIE JACKSON: I know there's something else that has been on your mind and a lot of folks' minds, and that is some comments and some backlash now to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, after some comments surfaced this week in which and I want to play it, she said something about the 9/11 attacks. I want to talk about your reaction to the backlash and your reaction to the comment in two pieces. So here is that remark, Congresswoman.

REP. ILHAN OMAR (CLIP): CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.

HALLIE JACKSON: And it's that phrase, some people did something, that is being picked up on by some of the Congresswoman’s critics, including for example, the cover of the New York Post, which I’ll ask you about in a second. But on these remarks themselves, some people did something as a reference to 9/11, do you think she should have rethought her words? Do you worry about the appropriateness of that?

REP. RASHIDA TLAIB: They do this all the time to us, especially women of color, they do that, they take our words out of context because they're afraid, because we speak truth, we speak truth to power. My sister Ilhan Omar, what she was talking about was up lifting people by supporting their civil liberties and civil rights. She has always, always condemned any kind of strategy, especially of a person that is directly impacted by being a refugee herself. She sees what terrorism can do, she sees what violence can do to a whole country, to a whole people. Taking it out of context, this is just pure racist act by many of those, hateful acts, by those because she does speak truth, when it talks about different issues that they don't disagree with and I’m really outraged.

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