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Trump's Latest Target for Ridicule: A Muslim Congressional Newcomer

Ken Bredemeier

   Mark LaMet and Lynn Davis contributed to this report.

   U.S. President Donald Trump has found his latest target for acerbic
   ridicule -- a hijab-wearing Muslim newcomer to Congress named Ilhan
   Omar. She is a Somali refugee but naturalized U.S. citizen whom Trump
   views as something less than a patriotic red, white and blue American.

   Trump railed against the lawmaker Wednesday night at his 2020
   re-election campaign rally in North Carolina. He stoked the packed
   crowd at a college basketball arena with his claims that she is proud
   of al-Qaida terrorists, blames the U.S. for the political crisis in
   Venezuela and launches "vicious anti-Semitic screeds."

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