Ilhan Omar blames Trump’s ‘dangerous criminal neglect’ for her dad’s coronavirus death
AN AMERICAN politician has blamed her father’s death from Covid-19 on “dangerous criminal neglect” by Donald Trump and his administration. Ilhan Omar, who serves as the Representative for Minnesota, claims the country’s high coronavirus death toll is because leaders “didn’t care about their lives”. The 38-year-old’s dad Nur Omar Mohamed died from the virus on June […]
AN AMERICAN politician has blamed her father’s death from Covid-19 on “dangerous criminal neglect” by Donald Trump and his administration.
Ilhan Omar, who serves as the Representative for Minnesota, claims the country’s high coronavirus death toll is because leaders “didn’t care about their lives”.
The 38-year-old’s dad Nur Omar Mohamed died from the virus on June 16, at Hennepin Medical Center in Minneapolis, aged 67
Speaking on the television channel MSNBC, the congresswoman slammed the administration’s handling of the pandemic, with more than 311,000 deaths so far reported.
Sounding emotional, she said: “I lost my father on June 16. I remember my dad was in Kenya, he came back into the US when Covid hit because he thought he was going to be safer here.
“My father and over 300,000 people have lost their lives to Covid because of dangerous criminal neglect by Trump and his administration.
“My father should be here today, so many of our family members should be here today and they’re not here with us because we had leaders who didn’t care about their lives.”
Omar says President Trump has “not shown an ounce of compassion”.
She added: “The president, to this day, has not shown an ounce of compassion to the people who have passed away.
“He still has not acknowledged the devastating loss so many of us are feeling.
“My father survived so many things and for him to lose his life to Covid is devastating.”
‘DEEPLY TROUBLED’
In the interview, Omar said she supported House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, who on Wednesday released a memo saying he had found evidence of “political interference” by Trump administration officials to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s pandemic response.
She continued: “I agree with Clyburn that it is not enough for us just to issue subpoenas, we have to investigate and prosecute these people who are responsible for these reckless deaths.”
It comes after the House subcommittee opened a probe into the alleged interference by the Trump administration.
Then-Health and Human Services scientific advisor Paul Alexander and Trump ally Michael Caputo were accused of meddling with the work of scientists.
In an email written in July by Alexnader, obtained by the subcommittee, he said: “So the bottom line is if it is more infectiouness (sic) now, the issue is who cares?
Alexander wrote in a July email obtained by the subcommittee: “So the bottom line is if it is more infectiouness now, the issue is who cares?
“If it is causing more cases in young, my word is who cares…as long as we make sensible decision, and protect the elderely (sic) and nursing homes, we must go on with life…who cares if we test more and get more positive tests.
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“There is no other way, we need to establish herd, and it only come about allowing the non-high risk groups expose themselves to the virus. Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions etc. have zero to little risk…so we use them to develop herd…we want them infected.”
In the memo, Clyburn said: “I am deeply troubled that, instead of promoting the best available science needed to keep Americans safe, the Trump Administration has played politics with a pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 of our fellow Americans.”
The US Sun has contacted Trump’s administration for comment.