Trump calls Omar's home country a sh*thouse

In a video clip of a Florida rally, Trump also says Omar gave a different "real name," "openly admitted to fraud" and can't legally sit in Congress. The clip offers no evidence for any of it.

Trump calls Omar's home country a sh*thouse

President Trump told a Florida rally that Rep. Ilhan Omar "comes from a sh*thouse country" and is "telling us how to run the United States," according to a post and attached video from MattLaslo.

The video transcript has Trump going further. He gives what he calls Omar's "real name," a different one from the name she uses in Congress. He says she "openly admitted to fraud." He says she "will not be legally allowed to be a member of that august body that sits in Washington so beautifully." The source does not say when the rally took place.

Developing — unverified: Trump's claim that Omar has a different "real name," his claim that she "openly admitted to fraud," and his claim that she will not be legally allowed to serve in Congress. These are Trump's assertions as transcribed. Nothing in the source backs any of them up.

The transcript offers no document, filing or case to back any of it.

The source is one social post with one video clip. No independent reporting confirms the remarks beyond that clip, and the source includes no response from Omar. We will not repeat the name Trump uses, because it is an unproven claim about a sitting member of Congress.

Here is the plain part. A president is using a derogatory word about a lawmaker's country of origin, then attaching a legal claim about whether she can hold her seat. The first is an insult. The second is an allegation, and allegations need evidence.

You can judge the clip yourself. The transcript contains the insult and the three claims, and nothing else on the legal question.

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