Her supporters broke out into laughter and cheers as Boebert called her colleague - or any Muslim with a backpack, for that matter - a likely suicide bomber. I kept waiting for the rim shot, but the Boebert crowd didn’t need the help.
“What’s happening? I look to my left and there she is, Ilhan Omar, and I said, ‘Well she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine,'” Boebert said. “I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers, and he and I were leaving the Capitol, we’re going back to my office and we get in the elevator and I see a Capitol Police officer running hurriedly to the elevator. You’ve no doubt heard of Boebert’s elevator story, in which she tells a Colorado crowd of her impromptu - and likely apocryphal - meeting with Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar, the only Muslim in Congress to wear a hijab. As you may guess, I have nothing against hell-raising in principle, except for those times when it devolves into anti-Muslim, homophobic, xenophobic, racist trolling as it did in Boebert’s recent stand-up routine slamming Minnesota Rep.
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