Ilhan Omar Hits Back at Laura Loomer's Racist Abuse

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1. Claim 1

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   “Lumemer's comments calling you and several of your colleagues, I apologize for my language, ghetto black”

   Laura Loomer referred to several Black women, including the interviewee and colleagues, as “ghetto black bitches.”

   CNN’s transcript records Loomer using the phrase “ghetto black bitches” and naming Angie Nixon, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The transcript’s “ghetto black” wording is an incomplete reference to that documented phrase.

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   • 1CNN.com Transcript: August 31, 2026↗

     SupportsLAURA LOOMER, CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST: Call out the entitlement of these, as I like to call them, ghetto black bitches. I've noticed this stereotype exists in the Democrat Party, and I don't think it belongs in the United States Senate. Unfortunately, it's already in the United States Congress.

   • 2CNN.com Transcript: August 31, 2026↗

     SupportsAngie Nixon, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Presley, Cori Bush, Ketanji Brown Jackson. I mean, look at that disaster.

2. Claim 2

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   “Laura Loomer who has advised the president has said.”

   Laura Loomer has advised President Trump.

   Loomer has no formal administration position, but reliable reporting documents her giving Trump recommendations and urging him to purge staffers. That constitutes advising him in the informal sense used in the statement.

   • US elections and domestic politics

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   • 1Trump fires several national security officials over loyalty concerns↗

     SupportsBut Loomer during her Oval Office conversation with Trump urged the president to purge staffers she deemed insufficiently loyal to his “Make America Great Again” agenda, according to several people familiar with the matter.

   • 2Trump fires several national security officials over loyalty concerns↗

     SupportsTrump acknowledged that Loomer “recommended certain people for jobs.”

   • 3Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains shift on Russia’s war↗

     SupportsWhile some have tried to downplay Loomer’s influence with the president, he has often followed her advice.

3. Claim 3

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   “I think less to do with what he says and more to do with the fact that they do not like that he helps progressive candidates.”

   Hasan Piker helps progressive candidates.

   Reporting documents Piker campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed and other left-wing or progressive candidates. The evidence supports the statement’s general assertion that he helps progressive candidates, understood as campaigning for or supporting them.

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   • 1The Crisis for Democrats in Michigan↗

     SupportsBut several left-wing Democrats, especially El-Sayed, have campaigned with Piker and elevated him into one of their most prominent surrogates.

   • 2Abdul El-Sayed apologizes for comments he made responding to an attack on a Michigan synagogue↗

     SupportsSome appearances, including multiple interviews with controversial streamer Hasan Piker, drew swift backlash.