Freshman Democrat responds to president’s criticism

Rep. Ilhan Omar hit back at President Donald Trump on Twitter Wednesday, saying he has “trafficked in hate” his whole life in response to his criticisms of her a day earlier.

The Minnesota Democrat has faced widespread, bipartisan criticism in recent days after a tweet Sunday that her own party leadership in the House described as using an “anti-semitic trope.” Omar tweeted a song lyric — “it’s all about the Benjamins, baby” — that she subsequently explained was meant to describe why Republican politicians support Israel. Omar apologized Monday.

Trump said Tuesday that Omar should resign or at least leave her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In response, Omar tweeted: “You have trafficked in hate your whole life — against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you?” the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through such blockbusters as “The Hobbit” and “Fahrenheit 451,” died Tuesday at her home in Bearsville at age 99.

Ballantine was just 20 and attending school in England in 1939 when she met and married 23-year-old Ian Ballantine, an American at the London School of Economics. The Ballantines eventually founded Bantam Books and Ballantine Books, both now part of Penguin Random House.

Paperbacks had existed in the U.S. since colonial times but were limited mostly to poorly made “pulp” novels. The Ballantines took advantage of new technology in production and distribution and a legal loophole to, as Ian Ballantine once put it,