Omar was also threatened by a GOP challenger to her seat who tweeted that she should be “tried for treason and hanged”
Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images On Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Party organization dedicated to getting lawmakers elected on a national level, removed a candidate from its Young Guns initiative promoting politicians who “show promise of running a successful campaign.” Florida veteran George Buck Jr.
“The fact that those who make these violent threats very publicly without hesitation reaffirms just how much white supremacy has spread within the [NRCC],” Tlaib tweeted on Wednesday, prior to Buck’s dismissal from the Young Guns program. “They are raising money on a call to hang a Black Muslim member of Congress and too many are silent.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ultimately made the call to remove Buck from the initiative on Wednesday.
On November 18, 55-year-old Patrick Carlineo Jr. pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Omar for a call he made to her Washington office in March. “Why are you working for her, she’s a [expletive] terrorist,” he asked one of her staffers. “Somebody ought to put a bullet in her skull. Back in the day, our forefathers would have put a bullet in her [expletive].
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