MINNEAPOLIS — A man lunged at Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota delegate to Congress, and sprayed her with vinegar at a townhall meeting. Omar was unhurt. The attacker was tackled to the floor by a security aide. It appeared the man squirted the vinegar at Omar’s face but missed and hit her shirt. She stepped back as the man lunged. Omar took a 10-minute break, then nonplussed resumed dialogue with her north Minneapolis constituent. The attacker’s motive was not immediately known. Omar, a Democrat, has been savaged for months by President Trump. The president has called Omar garbage. He has lumped her with all 70,000 Somali immigrants that he’s targeted for deportation to Africa.
Vinegar-loaded syringe. Question is whether attack was motivated Trump’s racist and xenophobic white nationalism