WATCH: Ilhan Omar Flees Reporter Asking About Charlie Kirk Comments

One day after facing a motion calling for her censure, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is running from TV cameras as she fails to explain her explosive comments about Charlie Kirk and Republicans who are silencing the celebrators of his murder.

The “Squad” member gave a blunt response when asked by a Fox News reporter for her reaction to a resolution filed by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that would see Omar publicly reprimanded on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. If passed, Omar would be required to stand on the floor as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reads off her wrongdoings and strips her committee assignments in front of the national press corps.

In the video, Omar is seen waiting for an elevator with staff as a reporter walks over to ask if she has any regrets about Democrats’ heated rhetoric in the wake of Kirk’s assassination on September 10.

“Are you concerned with the rhetoric coming from the Democratic base regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination?” the female reporter asks Omar, who did not respond.

“Why are Democratic voters celebrating political violence?” she asked again.

“I don’t think anybody is,” Omar shot back.

“Why did Democrats refuse to pray in a moment of silence?” the reporter asked.

“Nobody prays on the House floor,” Omar responded.

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Despite Omar’s doubt, countless K-12 educators, public employees, and others holding sensitive roles have been fired or punished for speaking positively about Kirk’s death at the hands of a gunman. Some Fortune 500 companies, including Office Depot and the law firm Perkins Coie, have announced the dismissal of employees who posted inflammatory content on social media.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have condemned Kirk’s murder, but that hasn’t prevented several contentious conflicts amid a roiling debate about the state of political rhetoric.

Hours after Kirk was murdered, a moment of silence on the floor of the House was interrupted as Democrats opposed a public prayer. Some began shouting about how Republicans were allegedly ignoring a school shooting in Colorado that same day, with Rep. Laura Boebert (R-CO) firing back at the Democrats, “You caused this!”

Omar, meanwhile, is facing the possibility of losing her posts on the House Budget Committee and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. She is also the top Democrat on the latter panel’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

On a progressive podcast last week, the Minnesota Democrat denounced Kirk for “downplay[ing] slavery and what Black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth shouldn’t exist.”

“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate,” Omar continued. “There is nothing more effed up, you know, like, than to completely pretend that, you know, his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.”

Omar also condemned Republicans’ criticisms as inauthentic.

“These people are full of s**t. And it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness, and have, you know, empathy, which Charlie said, ‘No, it shouldn’t exist,’ because that’s a newly created word or something,” Omar said, referring to Kirk’s comments about “hate speech.”