Omar bails out Trump
By Eliana Johnson, Melanie Zanona
POLITICO
March 8, 2019
She snidely refers to him as “Individual 1.” She has denounced him for “sabotaging the economy.” And she has accused him of engaging in “dehumanizing rhetoric.”
But this week, freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has been President Donald Trump’s dream come true.
Amid a punishing run of bad news for Trump — ranging from his failed North Korea summit to the scathing testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen to an imminent political rebuke by the Republican Senate — Omar has instead consumed the political headlines, giving Democratic lawmakers a taste of the scandal and controversy that has dogged Republicans for the past two years.
