On April 11 , 2019 , the front page of '' The New York Post '' carried an image of the World Trade Center burning following the September 11 terrorist attacks and a quotation from a speech Omar gave the previous month . The headline read , " REP. ILHAN OMAR : 9/11 WAS ' SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING , and a caption underneath added , " Here 's your something ... 2,977 people dead by terrorism . " The '' Post '' was quoting a speech Omar had given at a recent Council on American – Islamic Relations ( CAIR ) meeting . In the speech Omar said , " CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us Muslims in the U.S. were starting to lose access to our civil liberties . " ( CAIR was founded in 1994 , but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 ) . On April 12 , President Trump retweeted an altered video that edited Omar 's remarks to remove context , showing her saying , " Some people did something . " Some Democratic representatives condemned Trump 's retweet , predicting that it would incite violence and hatred . House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Trump to “ take down his disrespectful and dangerous video ” and asked the U.S. Capitol Police to increase its protection of Omar
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