Republicans using Rep. Omar to raise money: Analyst
The Republican Party in the United States has been using Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar to raise money, says a political analyst.
Kevin Barrett made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday when asked about Twitter that has permanently suspended the accounts of one of Omar's political rivals after she accused the Minnesota Muslim congresswoman of treason and suggested Omar should be hanged.
The social media giant on Saturday banned Republican House candidate Danielle Stella's personal and campaign accounts for "repeated violations" of Twitter's policies.
Stella is “the person that apparently the Zionists are hanging their hopes on to try to defeat Ilhan Omar,” Barret said, adding she “is shooting herself in the foot again by this kind of violent demand to hang her opponent.”
Stella, a potential Republican candidate challenging Omar for her Minnesota seat in the 2020 election, pounced on unsubstantiated media claims earlier this week that the Muslim congresswoman had been recruited by Qatari officials to pass on classified information to Qatar and Iran.
"If it is proven @IlhanMN passed sensitive info to Iran, she should be tried for #treason and hanged," Stella wrote in a tweet.
The congresswoman has already dismissed the accusations and denounced them as “outlandishly absurd,” nevertheless, the claims continue to be spread.
Barrett went on to say, “it seems that the Republican Party and its propaganda media has been using Ilhan Omar to try to raise money, they cast her as the evil Muslim radical and can find all sorts of ways of painting horns on her head and demonizing her in an attempt to rile up their base and get money and vote.”
“But I’m not sure this is going to work, if they‘re running people like Danielle Stella against her,” he added. “Perhaps, these Republicans are actually happy having Ilhan Omar round to beat up on and to raise money from,” he added.
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