Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) used the first day of Black History Month to push a censure resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) based on an inaccurate translation of a speech.

Taylor Greene promoted her speech on Twitter/X, saying:

Today, I’m introducing a Censure Resolution on Ilhan Omar for admitting she’s working as a foreign agent for a foreign country.

I urge my colleagues to vote to Censure, but I wish I had the votes to expel and deport her.

At the beginning of her speech to introduce the censure, Taylor Greene referred to “Representative Ilhan Omar of Somali– I mean Minnesota.” She also accused Omar of making “treasonous statements”:

Whereas Representative Omar assured the Somalians she spoke to “the U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia.”

Whereas Representative Omar continued, “for as long as I am in U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. Sleep in comfort knowing I am here to protect the interest of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.”

But according to several different experts in Somali, Omar didn’t say that at all. Not only was the originally cited translation inaccurate, there was a lot of missed context. From Minnesota’s Star Tribune:

The speech was held at an event at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Minneapolis on Jan. 27 to celebrate the recent election in the region of Somalia known as Puntland. Omar’s comments turned to a recent port deal between landlocked Ethiopia and the breakaway republic Somaliland that’s left the entire Horn of Africa on edge.

In the wake of the port deal between the northern region of Somalia and Ethiopia, Omar said in the speech that she’s fielded calls from concerned people who want the United States government to intervene in hopes of nullifying the 50-year agreement.

The right — including Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — jumped on Omar, who came to the United States as a Somali refugee as a child, after a speech she delivered in Somali in Minneapolis was inaccurately translated. Omar was accused of declaring her loyalty to Somalia based on an inaccurate translation in which she referred to “people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second.”

Watch the video above via C-SPAN.

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