Sarah Sanders defended President Trump after his 9/11 tweet.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President Trump after he shared a video that was edited to suggest that Representative Ilhan Omar downplayed the 9/11 attacks.
"Certainly, the president is wishing no ill will, and certainly not violence towards anyone, but the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her not only one time, but history of anti-Semitic comments," Sanders said Sunday during an appearance on ABC News' "This Week."
Her remarks came after Trump tweeted the video that "showed snippets of comments Omar made last month at a banquet for a Muslim civil rights organization interspersed with footage of the twin towers burning," notes the Washington Post.
NBC News reports that at the Council on American-Islamic Relations event, "Omar mistakenly said the organization was founded in response to the terrorist attacks, adding 'because they recognized that some people did something' — a phrasing that some in conservative media have interpreted as a too-flippant reference to the attack."
Trump's tweet prompted widespread criticism.
"Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage," Bernie Sanders wrote on Twitter. "She won't back down to Trump's racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end."
"This is an incitement to violence against Congresswoman Omar, against our fellow Americans who happen to be Muslim," Beto O'Rourke said during a speech in South Carolina.
