AOC Slams McCarthy’s “Ku Klux Klan Caucus” After Ilhan Omar Receives Death Threat

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), saying his “Ku Klux Klan caucus” is not being held accountable for their actions aft Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) shared a racist voicemail containing a decease menace pursuing an anti-Muslim onslaught from Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

“People genuinely don’t recognize the scale, intensity, & measurement of threats targeting [Omar],” Ocasio-Cortez said successful a tweet. “Kevin McCarthy is truthful hopeless to beryllium Speaker that helium is moving with his Ku Klux Klan caucus to look speech & let convulsive targeting of woc [women of color] members of Congress.”

People genuinely don’t recognize the scale, intensity, & measurement of threats targeting @IlhanMN.

Kevin McCarthy is truthful hopeless to beryllium talker that helium is moving with his Ku Klux Klan caucus to look speech & let convulsive targeting of woc members of Congress.

This cannot beryllium ignored. https://t.co/ppridf6bZl

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 1, 2021

Omar has besides called connected the GOP to nip this “hateful rhetoric” successful the bud.

“This benignant of hateful rhetoric and actions cannot spell without punishment. There has to beryllium accountability,” Omar said. “If and erstwhile the Republican league fails to bash so, it is going to beryllium our occupation to bash that.”

Boebert besides made anti-Muslim comments directed toward Omar, telling a assemblage successful September that Omar, who is simply a practicing Muslim and wears a hijab, was a terrorist.

“One of my I staffers, connected his archetypal time with me, got into an elevator successful the Capitol. And successful that elevator, we were joined by Ilhan Omar,” Boebert told the assemblage astatine a Staten Island Conservative Party dinner. 

“It was conscionable america 3 successful determination and I looked implicit and I said, well, lookey there, it’s the Jihad Squad,” Boebert said astatine the time. “She doesn’t person a backpack, she wasn’t dropping it and moving truthful we’re good.”

Omar said that Boebert has refused to apologize.

“Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publically admit her hurtful and unsafe comments,” she said. “She alternatively doubled down connected her rhetoric and I decided to extremity the unproductive call.”