"That's Teddy, said Tim Mynett, husband of the US representative Ilhan Omar, as their five-year-old labrador retriever capered around her office on Capitol Hill. If you make too much eye contact, he'll lose it. He's my best friend and he's our security detail these days. The couple were sitting on black leather furniture around a coffee table. Apart from a sneezing fit that took her husband by surprise,"
"Speaking at a rally-style event in Pennsylvania last week, Donald Trump mocked her hijab and alleged that the Somali-born Omar married her own brother to gain US citizenship. Therefore she's here illegally, he said. She should get the hell out. Throw her the hell out! She does nothing but complain. The president's supporters broke into a gleeful chant of: Send her back! Send her back!"
"What did Omar herself make of the comments? They're vile and it is, I believe, a really unhealthy and creepy obsession that he has with me, the 43-year-old, wearing a green, white and pink banded sweater, told the Guardian on Friday as Teddy frolicked nearby. Everybody knows I came to the United States at the age of 12 on a refugee status and became a citizen when I was 17 and obviously I'm a duly elected member of Congress"
Ilhan Omar sat calmly in her Washington office with her dog Teddy despite frequent death threats and a high-profile vendetta. Donald Trump mocked her hijab at a Pennsylvania rally and alleged she married her brother to gain US citizenship, prompting chants of "Send her back" from his supporters. Omar called the remarks vile and an unhealthy, creepy obsession, and stated she arrived in the United States as a refugee at age 12 and became a citizen at 17. She emphasized that her elected status is unquestioned and linked the attacks to Trump deflecting from policy failures on affordability.
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