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Ilhan Omar’s 2020 campaign kicked off last month, with little media fanfare. Omar—who was elected to Congress in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in 2019—has been the subject of controversy due to policy positions she has taken, as well questions about her past. And earlier this year, the New York Post reported that the FBI is looking into whether Omar committed tax fraud, immigration fraud, and student loan fraud by marrying her brother.Unnoticed amid the controversy surrounding Omar has been the past statements of her campaign manager, Claire Bergren. ...Later in 2015, Bergren wrote that Black Lives Matter in Minneapolis should “flood the streets with 1,000s of unafraid revolutionaries†in order to “kill the white supremacy.†In June of that same year, Bergren posted a drawing of a black woman in a bikini standing over a white police officer, who was cuffed and face-down on the ground.Neo-Marxism?Bergren’s social media history also shows a history of supporting Marxism. “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born, now is the time of monsters,†was one picture that Bergren posted, which showed a burning match. It was unclear whether the “monsters†the image spoke of were the “good guys†or the “bad guys.†Another post, probably more satirical, talked about unionization and cooperatives progressing eventually into “full communism.†Yet she also posted about a book titled “Black Marxism.†...
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Topic: Ilhan Omar’s Campaign Manager Claire Bergren Has a History of Controversy (Read 147 times)
