Ilhan Omar Calls Kevin McCarthy ‘A Liar and Coward’ for Not Cracking down on Lauren Boebert

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy “a liar and a coward” during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Omar told anchor Jake Tapper that McCarthy — and other Republicans in leadership positions — had not done enough to condemn Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for comments that she said were anti-Muslim and could provoke extremists into taking dangerous or violent actions.
Tapper began with a recap of Boebert’s comments — a story she told claiming that, while standing in an elevator with Omar, she joked with security about how Omar probably was not a threat because she didn’t have a backpack. The obvious inference was that if Omar had been carrying a backpack, she might have been a suicide bomber.