They each went there.
Lefty Dem Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday bashed firebrand GOP Rep. Nancy Mace as a “drunk” for suggesting she and fellow “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib had been mourning Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s dying.
Mace of South Carolina had sarcastically posted on-line Saturday — after Khamenei’s dying was introduced — “My coronary heart goes out to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib tonight.
“Sending them ideas and prayers,” she wrote in a publish accompanied by an image of Khamenei.
Omar and Tlaib — each of Minnesota — had been the primary Muslim ladies elected to Congress and are a part of a far-left contingency generally known as “The Squad.”
“I hope you aren’t drunk and took your employees’s recommendation, Rashida and I don’t know this man and really feel assured he didn’t care about us,” Omar fired again on X.
“Please restrain [sic] from consuming an excessive amount of as you’ve got been warned out of your employees and keep off social media when you’re drunk. I pray in his holy month you discover peace and respect to your self [sic].”
Omar was referencing the litany of complaints Mace has confronted from former staffers about her making a poisonous work atmosphere.
Final month, a shocking New York Journal story accused Mace of consuming alcohol “excessively” and tasking staffers with late-night runs to liquor shops to purchase her booze.
Mace has vehemently disputed the accusations, regardless of a number of ex-staffers publicly backing them up, claiming she suffers from hemochromatosis, which she described as a “lifelong genetic affliction that forestalls me from consuming a lot alcohol.”
Hemochromatosis is a situation the place extreme iron builds up in key organs comparable to the guts, pancreas, and liver.
“Honey, it’s ‘please chorus’ not ‘please restrain.’ That is what occurs when your employees is from the Third World and might’t communicate correct English,” Mace needled Omar in response.
Mace, who’s vying to be governor of South Carolina, has applauded the killing of Khamenei and efforts to undermine the Iranian regime.
Omar and Mace have ceaselessly traded barbs on social media over time.
In January, Mace tried to get the Home Oversight Committee to subpoena information which may present whether or not Omar married her brother.
The Minnesota Democrat bashed President Trump on Saturday for authorizing the Operation Absolute Fury strikes on Iran. Khamenei was killed throughout the joint US-Israeli strikes.
“The American persons are sick and uninterested in countless wars constructed on false guarantees and paid for with harmless lives. Congress should instantly move [the] Khanna-Massie Struggle Powers Decision,” Omar wrote on X on the time.
Earlier than the assaults, Omar grumbled that “The US apparently likes to strike Muslim nations throughout Ramadan and I’m satisfied it isn’t what these nations have performed to violate worldwide legislation however about who they worship.”
Ramadan is a month of fasting, prayer and reflection in Islam that spans Feb. 17 to March 19 this 12 months.
Mace’s workplace didn’t reply to a Submit request for remark.
