Ocasio-Cortez slams McCarthy's 'Ku Klux Klan caucus' after Omar death threat

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for what she described as a failure to hold the members of his Republican caucus accountable after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday shared a racist voicemail containing a death threat following an anti-Muslim attack from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

"People truly don't understand the scale, intensity, & volume of threats targeting [Omar]," Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet posted on Wednesday morning. "Kevin McCarthy is so desperate to be speaker that he is working with his Ku Klux Klan caucus to look aside & allow violent targeting of woc members of Congress."

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The threat, Omar said, came after Boebert posted a video on social media defending herself following a phone call between the two lawmakers. The phone call, which deteriorated and reportedly ended when Omar hung up on Boebert, came after a video surfaced of the Colorado Republican making an anti-Muslim remark and suggesting the progressive lawmaker may be a terrorist.

"Don't worry," caller said on the voicemail Omar played for members of the press corps."There's plenty that will love the opportunity to take you off the face of this f---ing Earth."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-slams-mccarthys-ku-klux-klan-caucus-after-omar-death-threat/ar-AARlFJB

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