Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is trouncing Elon Musk for a fairly embarrassing mistake.
The progressive lawmaker was entrance and heart Tuesday in footage that appeared to indicate her giving a seminar for Somali immigrants on how to answer questions from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which Musk shared Tuesday on X whereas condemning her actions as against the law.
“She is breaking the law,” Musk wrote of the video. “Literally. Outright.”
Nevertheless, the South African billionaire failed to appreciate that providing such recommendation is authorized — and that the footage he shared together with his 216 million followers was misleadingly edited, in line with Omar.
“Hey Elon,” the Democratic lawmaker wrote Tuesday whereas quoting Musk’s viral submit. “Every single person in this country deserves to know their rights. That’s legal. Maybe you should brush up on our laws given the fact you’re breaking them to steal American’s sensitive data.”
“PS,” she continued. “This video is manipulated, and I wasn’t even at the event shown.”
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Musk, who spent a quarter-billion {dollars} reinstalling President Donald Trump within the White Home, is now dismantling federal businesses underneath his unofficial Division of Authorities Effectivity.
He acquired the brand new title of “special government employee” on Tuesday, when a number of information shops additionally reported {that a} DOGE worker had gained entry to the Treasury Division’s fee system.
Whereas Musk’s acolytes predictably attacked Omar as a “terrorist” within the wake of his submit, others torched the right-wing tech mogul on his personal social media platform — with one consumer noting: “That is rich coming from you when the president is [a] 34 times convicted felon.”
“I am begging Elon Musk to use Google before spreading lies to his millions of followers,” wrote Cause reporter Billy Binion on X. “Once again: it is not a crime to remind people of their basic rights—which, yes, even undocumented immigrants are entitled to.”
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