In the video, Boebert told a story about meeting Omar in an elevator as she was leaving the Capitol and a police officer rushing toward them.
“I see fret all over his face, and he’s reaching […] The door’s shutting, like I can’t—I can’t open it—like, what’s happening?” Boebert said.
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“I look to my left, and there she is. Ilhan Omar. I said, ‘Well she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine.'”
Boebert again referred to Omar as a member of the “Jihad Squad”—repeating a phrase she’d used during a debate on the censure of Republican Representative Paul Gosar.
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