‘An unhealthy and creepy obsession’: Ilhan Omar on Trump’s attacks

The Zen-like US representative from Minnesota has had the highest level of death threats of any congressperson because of the president's attacks

That's Teddy," said Tim Mynett, husband of the US representative Ilhan Omar, as their five-year-old labrador retriever capered around her office on Capitol Hill. If you make too much eye contact, he'll lose it. He's my best friend - and he's our security detail these days."

The couple were sitting on black leather furniture around a coffee table. Apart from a sneezing fit that took her husband by surprise, Omar had an unusual Zen-like calm for someone who receives frequent death threats and is the subject of a vendetta from the most powerful man in the world.