This is the Guardian.

A quick warning for this episode that we do hear threats of violence,

which include some offensive language.

Welcome to Politics Weekly, extra I'm Jonathan Friedland.

We've told recently on the podcast about that video that was posted by

a Republican congressman Paul Gosar, which depicted in anime style

the killing of the Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It was horribly violent and there was huge pressure on Paul Gosar to apologize,

which he eventually did and also to take the video down.

But in the debate, plenty of his colleagues rallied to his side, defending what they said

with his right to free speech.

One of those defenders was a fellow Republican member of Congress,

a new member from Colorado, Lauren Bobut, who said this in the debate on the House floor.

The G-Head Squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband and not her brother husband,

the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds.

This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists.

Bobut referring there to Ilhan Omar, Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota,

and a recent report by Fox News that Omar had allegedly paid the political

consultancy firm owned by her husband nearly $3 million during the 2020 election cycle.

Omar ended the contract with the firm last year.

But putting aside those accusations, it was the Islamophobic comments that Bobut

got most criticism for.

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