WATCH: ‘Take Ilhan Omar back,’ Trump tells Somali president

President Trump revealed that he asked the Somali president to take back U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, citing her anti-American and pro-terrorism rhetoric, but the leader flatly refused.


Trump said he told Somalia’s leader he could “take Ilhan Omar back,” adding, “I suggested maybe he’d like to take her back… He said, ‘I don’t want her.’” pic.twitter.com/QorVNFdqGp

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