Rep. Ilhan Omar said on Sunday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is a “liar and a coward” for defending Rep. Lauren Boebert after the Colorado Republican made bigoted comments about her.
The Minnesota Democrat has faced repeated anti-Muslim attacks from Boebert, who last month made a joke to a crowd insinuating that the Muslim lawmaker was a suicide bomber and called her part of the “jihad squad.” In September, the freshman lawmaker suggested at another event that Omar was a terrorist.
