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This post was updated on May 5th include the response from the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards (CAFA).
On Saturday, socialite and philanthropist Suzanne Rogers shared a series of Stories on her Instagram account showing her and her family at Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump’s resort in Florida. One of the Stories showed Rogers (with her husband, Rogers Communications chairman Edward Rogers, and her two sons) posing with Trump as he gave his signature thumbs-up to camera. She captioned the all-smiles photograph: “A special way to end the night!”
The backlash to the posts was almost instantaneous, and continues to reverberate through Canada’s tight-knit fashion community, and beyond. On Tuesday afternoon, Rogers issued a statement, saying in part: “No political statement, on any policy was intended by that photograph,” after an explanation that she has no relationship “good or otherwise” with Trump, had never met him before and they only took the photo “in me
weeks as this has built internally. it has built. the frustration has built. what speaker pelosi has tried to diffuse that. take a listen as to how she described things earlier today. we re working now on a resolution, we ll see when we bring it to the floor that we ll, again, speak out against anti-semitism, antiislamaphobia, antiwhite supremacy and all the forms it takes. that s what we re working on, something that is one resolution addressing these forms of hatred, not mentioning her name because it s not about her, it s about these forms of hatred. reporter: so the resolution itself doesn t mention the congresswoman but it has been expanded from four pages to seven, not just talk about condemnation for anti-semitism but also condemnation for bigotry and white supremacy. the seven page resolution does mention the dual loyalty issue,
when we bring each of the floor, we will speak out against anti-semitism. anti-islamophobia, antiwhite supremacy, something that is one resolution addressing these forms of hatred. not mentioning her name, because it s not about her. it s about these forms of hatre hatred. melissa: chief congressional respondent mike emanuel has more from capitol hill. good afternoon. we thought we would see language of that modified resolution but so far it has not been released. ilhan omar offended a lot of her colleagues when she said support for israel was basically dual loyalty. speaker pelosi has tried to explain it as omar not fully grasping the weight of her words. a florida democrat is calling for a strong response. the fact is that using anti-semitic tropes like the dual loyalty charge, which i take so personally both as a member of congress and the son