Pro-Hamas protesters stormed the Capitol grounds on Wednesday, including taking over the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building as police largely stood by and watched. That came in response to President Joe Biden visiting Israel to discuss the ongoing conflict with Hamas.
Here are what some of the scenes looked like. At this point, there's probably no point in even mentioning how differently left-wing protesters are treated when they trespass.
— Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) October 18, 2023
While that was happening, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) launched into an unhinged rant outside of the building in which she again blamed Israel for the supposed bombing of a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. Evidence, including video and intelligence intercepts, has since proven that a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket fell short and struck the hospital's parking lot. Despite claims of 500 dead, it is now believed that a few dozen people perished in the resulting fire.
Tlaib went radio-silent after spreading the Jewish blood libel and ignored questions from reporters the next morning.
As of now, hours after Israel released - and President Biden affirmed - evidence that Israel was not behind the Gaza hospital bombing, these posts from progressive Dem Congresswomen @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib are still up pic.twitter.com/MkdzAocmIR
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 18, 2023
At this rally, though, she let loose, threatening President Joe Biden and doubling down on her lies.
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib shows no remorse after parroting false Hamas propaganda that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza:
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"We have to speak the truth! We gotta stop allowing people to police our words, to target what we say!" pic.twitter.com/jymEGMAW6D
TLAIB: And to my president, to our president, yes he's still our, well, hold on. Hey, I want him to know, as a Palestinian-American, as also someone of Muslim faith, I'm not going to forget this. And I think a lot of people are not gonna forget this. It's not, it's not, it's not a threat, it isn't. They think we're joking. I mean, I think the White House and everyone thinks that we're just going sit back and let this just continue to happen.
No, the fact of the matter is, our lives are not safe with you or the former impeached president. When are we gonna feel safe, when are we gonna stop funding, continuing, literally oppression of indigenous communities? When are we gonna say enough? It makes me so angry to have to say, I'm telling you, I'm talking to people that literally are like me. They literally live in this party that was supposed to be inclusive of all of our opinions and our views and our political stances and all of these things, but what is really starting to get really, really, really clear and very loud is that somehow, many of us in this room because of our political opinions, because maybe our faith is a certain faith, maybe because our ethnicity is a certain ethnicity, that somehow we're subhuman.
Just a tip for Tlaib, but if you make a threat against someone, turning around and saying it's not a threat doesn't cancel out the threat. When she says she's not going to forget this and that she and her pro-Hamas supporters will not "continue to let this happen" while reiterating that she's "not joking," what else is that supposed to mean? It's a threat.
As to the hospital incident, Tlaib, despite all the evidence disproving her original lie, decided to repeat it for the frothing crowd anyway.
TLAIB: And continue to watch people think it's okay to bomb a hospital where children...you know what's so hard sometimes is watching those videos and the people telling the kids don't cry. I'm like, "Let them cry!" And they're shaking, and they keep telling them not to cry in Arabic.
Tlaib went on in the clip to directly accuse Biden of committing genocide before again reiterating that "we will remember this."
To that I say, enjoy yourself, Democrats. This was the party you wanted. These were the people you wanted to ally with. Now, they are going to consume you, and Republicans are going to sit back and say, "I told you so."
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