Maine Beacon - Senator Susan Collins responded to President Donald Trump’s racist tweet against four minority congresswomen on Monday by repeating several of his unfounded attacks against them before admitting that the president went “way over the line.”
Collins told Portland Press Herald reporter Colin Woodard that she “disagree[s] strongly with many of the views and comments of some of the far-left members of the House Democratic Caucus – especially when it comes to their views on socialism, their anti-Semitic rhetoric, and their negative comments about law enforcement – but the President’s tweet that some Members of Congress should go back to the ‘places from which they came’ was way over the line, and he should take that down.”
Collins’ accusation that the progressive first-term legislators use “anti-Semetic rhetoric” is likely in reference to a February tweet in which Omar criticized the pro-Israel lobby group The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, for buying influence in Washington.
Omar drew wide condemnation for the tweet and quickly apologized. However, conservatives and even some within her own party have continued to spin the incident as anti-Semetic, prompting frequent threats of harm against Omar and her colleagues. Progressive Jewish organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace, have defended Omar, calling the critiques against her “bad faith attack
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