Rudy Giuliani promotes long-debunked image of Ilhan Omar 'at al-Qaeda training camp'
Rudy Giuliani has once again posted misinformation about Rep. Ilhan Omar on social media, sharing a meme that falsely claimed the congresswoman was seen at a terrorist training camp.
The president’s personal lawyer tweeted a debunked meme that included a photo of a woman holding a gun, along with a caption that falsely claimed the woman was Ms Omar (D—Mn).
The meme spread across far-right corners of the web last year, despite the photo having been taken three years before the Somali-American congresswoman was born.
According to PolitiFact, the image was captured on a military training campus in 1978 and showed “a woman recruit of the Somali Army” — not Ms Omar, who born in 1981 in Mogadishu, and whose family later sought asylum in the US.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rudy-giuliani-promotes-long-debunked-141106595.html
Nothing Republicans love more than some good old fashioned racism. That's not a dog whistle. It's an air raid siren.
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I'm not a lawyer either but I would think there is/should be a difference between Joe Blow from Kokomo getting on social media and spewing phony baloney about a public figure vs. someone who is himself a "responsible" public figure who has held public office and worked closely with the President defaming a public figure he doesn't like with falsehoods.
