From US speaker says it’s good for Americans to see ‘shameful’ behavior of Reps. Omar, Tlaib
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US House Speaker Mike Johnson says he nearly expelled representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from the chamber for heckling US President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address yesterday.
“It was shameful, really. I came this close to stopping them; we could have probably ejected them from the floor. [But] I thought, let their actions speak for themselves,” he tells Fox News.
Omar and Tlaib repeatedly shouted at Trump during his speech, calling him a “liar” and alleging that he had “killed Americans.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Talib lose it and start yelling at President Trump during his SOTU speech.
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“If they’d gone a step further, we probably would have ejected them,” Johnson says. “But I think it was good for them to be there. I think it’s good for the American people to see the shame that they’ve brought upon their parties and upon themselves. And what a stark contrast between them and between the Republican Party.
“We’re on the right side of common sense, on law and justice, on security and American dominance and strength, and the Democrats stand for exactly the opposite of all that.”
The Times of Israel Community.