Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. is facing criticism for introducing a measure to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., over a mistranslation of a speech by the Somali-American congresswoman.
Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross told theGrio, that “It does not help anyone to have a Republican party willing to promote lies about a sitting Congresswoman who represents a large population of Muslims across this country just to stir up their base.”
“This is an election year, and they’re doing it on purpose,” she said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told theGrio, that he supports Omar and that “There is nothing credible about anything that Marjorie Taylor Greene says or does as a member of the United States Congress.”
On Thursday, Greene introduced a measure to censure Omar, alleging that the Democratic congresswoman had made “treasonous statements” and, therefore is a national security threat.
In the resolution, Greene included several “treasonous statements” that were not made by Omar to Somalis at an event in Minneapolis. Instead, Greene quoted a mistranslation of Omar’s speech that was circulating on the internet.
One of the false statements in the resolution read that Omar assured Somalis that “the U.S. Government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia.”
Omar took to X, formerly known as Twitter, and fired back at Greene with a post that stated the translation for her speech was “completely off, but I wouldn’t expect more from these propagandists.”
Cross told theGrio that “Republicans have taken wide leaps of faith over things that they have found online that have later been found to be ill-founded or lies and have propagated action based on those lies and have gotten caught up.
“If you are Black, brown, or someone…
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