Cruz calls death threats to Omar ‘reprehensible’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday it was “reprehensible” that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was receiving death threats.

“This is reprehensible,” Cruz tweeted. “Disagree with @IlhanMN on the merits, fine, but death threats to anyone are not a joke.”

This is reprehensible. Disagree with @IlhanMN on the merits, fine, but death threats to anyone are not a joke. https://t.co/TaUk5MWpwu

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 4, 2019

The Texas senator spoke out after Chad Loder, the CEO and founder of tech company Habitu8, tweeted screenshots of death threats against Omar.

{mosads}“Maybe Twitter has improved its policing of death threats since ABCNews and WaPo covered this 6 months ago?” Loder tweeted. “Oh.”

Omar tagged Twitter, calling the threats “unacceptable.” 

Yo @Twitter this is unacceptable! https://t.co/EShwP1UU9O

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 3, 2019

The Minnesota Democrat has said she received an increase in death threats in April after President Trump shared a video that included images of the 9/11 attacks interlaced with some of her comments.

In July, a crowd at a Trump rally in North Carolina chanted, “Send her back” in reference to Omar after the president tweeted that she and other women of color who serve in the House — Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) — should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

All four lawmakers are U.S. citizens. Omar came to the United States as a Somali refugee.