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Pelosi calls on Trump to take down tweet of Omar video

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., announced Sunday that she took steps to ensure the safety of Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump’s retweet of a video that contained a partial quote from a speech in which the Minnesota Democrat described the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.”

Pelosi called on Trump to take down the video. Soon after her public request, the video disappeare­d from Trump’s twitter feed.

The White House said that the president has a duty to highlight Omar’s history of making comments that others find offensive and that he wished no “ill will” upon the first-term lawmaker.

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