# Shady self-dealing by Ilhan Omar

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shady-self-dealing-by-ilhan-omar/918058 "2020-08-14T06:56:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shady-self-dealing-by-ilhan-omar/918058/38 "2020-08-16T00:48:27Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> In this case, the laughable notion that my antipathy for the left fringe of the Democratic Party would in any way suggest that I have a shred of affection for Trump.

…do you concede that your belief that:

> [@Interesting podcast conversation between Sam Harris and Charles Murray (of "Bell Curve" fame)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-podcast-conversation-between-sam-harris-and-charles-murray-of-bell-curve-fame/785052/1799):
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> I also welcome immigrants from virtually any other part of the world, as long as they are not Muslim.

Places you on the alt-right fringes of the Democratic Party, that it is a position that almost no other member of the Democratic Party (publicly) supports, and that even though you may not have “a shred of affection for Trump” that this particular belief of yours pretty much goes against everything that most Democrats believe, and goes against the principals of the American Constitution?

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