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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRudy Giuliani promotes long-debunked image of Ilhan Omar 'at al-Qaeda training camp'
Rudy Giuliani has once again posted misinformation about Rep. Ilhan Omar on social media, sharing a meme that falsely claimed the congresswoman was seen at a terrorist training camp.
The presidents personal lawyer tweeted a debunked meme that included a photo of a woman holding a gun, along with a caption that falsely claimed the woman was Ms Omar (DMn).
The meme spread across far-right corners of the web last year, despite the photo having been taken three years before the Somali-American congresswoman was born.
According to PolitiFact, the image was captured on a military training campus in 1978 and showed a woman recruit of the Somali Army not Ms Omar, who born in 1981 in Mogadishu, and whose family later sought asylum in the US.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rudy-giuliani-promotes-long-debunked-141106595.html
Nothing Republicans love more than some good old fashioned racism. That's not a dog whistle. It's an air raid siren.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I watched The Chris Rock Show on HBO before 9-11 and there was a NYC resident when Rock would do his out on the street segments that repeated "Fuck Giuliani!"
Fuck Giuliani!
moondust
(20,019 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'm not a lawyer to know whether a case against Giuliani would be successful but I learned from the Tulsi Gabbard lawsuit her chances were near 0% because she is a public figure.
moondust
(20,019 posts)I'm not a lawyer either but I would think there is/should be a difference between Joe Blow from Kokomo getting on social media and spewing phony baloney about a public figure vs. someone who is himself a "responsible" public figure who has held public office and worked closely with the President defaming a public figure he doesn't like with falsehoods.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)dhill926
(16,380 posts)kind of like the Clinton War Room, but hell, involving the entire Democratic Party now. Fuck this shit...
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)How nice for him!
LuckyCharms
(17,469 posts)Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)I got two words for Rudy: Russian Bounties