I am deeply disappointed in Speaker Pelosi’s choice, a choice that threatens the Committee’s long history of bipartisan support for Israel," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement Thursday. "Anti-Semitism has no place in Congress and certainly not on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel," Omar tweeted during an Israeli military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. To the extent that it matters, I'm not gay."Īnother Omar tweet from 2012 has drawn accusations of anti-Semitism against the congresswoman, who was appointed to a seat on the House Foreign Relations Committee by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday. "She wants to live her life that way, that's up to her," Graham told TMZ.
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But in 2018 the senator did address a series of tweets from comedian Chelsea Handler, some of which included offensive language, that also implied he was being blackmailed for being a homosexual. Graham's office declined to comment when asked by USA TODAY. "What do they have on you? I can’t tell if this shameful 180 is born of fear or thirst," Evans tweeted to Graham in response to the senator's call for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency to secure funding for a southern border wall. The same day Omar posted her controversial tweet about Graham, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle suggested Graham had a change of heart about the president because "Donald Trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about Lindsey Graham."Īnd on Saturday night, "Avengers" actor Chris Evans called Graham "Smithers" in reference to a sycophantic character on "The Simpsons" who spent 26 seasons as a closeted homosexual before coming out in 2016. However, Graham is the Senate Judiciary Chair and there’s a strong likelihood that he's being blackmailed by the Russians. Rather, he thinks it probably involves some pretty serious sexual kink."Ĭooper added in a follow-up tweet that "as an openly gay man myself, I couldn’t care less about Lindsey Graham's sex life (gay, straight or otherwise). On Sunday, Jon Cooper, who heads the Democratic Coalition super PAC, tweeted that a "Republican just told me that he doubts is kowtowing to Trump (and indirectly Putin) because he’s being blackmailed over his sexual orientation (an open secret) or even financial corruption. Those outraged by Omar's commentary on Graham believed she was feeding into other recent conspiracy theories about him that more explicitly centered on rumors surrounding his sexuality. That’s irresponsible.and also ignorant, homophobic and unacceptable." A member of Congress jumped on the patently homophobic 'Lindsey must be hiding something' bandwagon and offered precisely ZERO proof, only wholly invented, baseless hypotheticals.
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When asked to remove her tweet calling Omar's comment homophobic, she tweeted, "No. Let’s focus!"īut Cupp and others did not accept Omar's explanation. "Y’all know my tweet had nothing to do with his sexuality and everything to do with his blind cooperation w/ Trump. "Well I have news for them, being LGBTQ+ isn’t something we should be ashamed of!" she said. In another tweet, she said conservatives jumped to the conclusion she was being homophobic "because the Right thinks being homosexual is 'compromising.'" "Pro-tip- just because you are homophobic, doesn't mean everyone else is." "I love how revealing the Right is in their assumptions of me," Omar said Thursday in response to a Breitbart News link to an article about the controversy. Unbelievable," tweeted social media strategist Caleb Hull.
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"Here we have Ilhan Omar, a sitting Congresswoman, floating around a conspiracy theory with absolutely zero evidence that Lindsey Graham is secretly gay and the GOP is holding him hostage. "Democrats, this is becoming a very bad look." Cupp tweeted with a link to the CNN interview in which Omar made no reference to Graham's sexuality. "This is ignorant, homophobic and unacceptable," CNN's S.E.
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When pressed on how she could make such a charge without evidence, Omar at first asserted "the evidence really is present to us" but then backtracked, explaining, "My tweet was just an opinion based on what I believe to be visible to me and I'm pretty sure there are lots of Americans who agree on this."Īlthough she made no reference to Graham's sexuality, many conservatives denounced her for homophobia, saying her tweet about Graham being compromised was a reference to long-running and unsubstantiated rumors that he is gay. "He is somehow compromised to no longer stand up for the truth," she concluded from his change of opinion.