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.”
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.”
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.