Her victory was a surprise-at least to some. As for Van Duyne: This past November, she was elected to the United States Congress. In the end, Mohamed was never charged, and he and his family moved to Qatar. Within days, the news had reached the BlackBerry of President Barack Obama, who tweeted, “Cool clock, Ahmed. Yet another public official backed the police response. Yet another brown kid in a red state was being overpoliced. The controversy dragged obscure Irving into the national conversation. “We’ve heard more from the media than the child ever released to the police when we were asking him questions,” she said calmly. She defended Mohamed’s arrest on Facebook, then went on The Glenn Beck Program to repeat the “ hoax bomb” lie and complain that the child hadn’t given police enough information. The other Texan was Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne, a blond 44-year-old with Disney-princess bone structure. His English teacher decided it might be a bomb, and the school called the police, who arrested Mohamed for bringing in a “ hoax bomb.” Because Mohamed’s family was part of Irving’s large Muslim minority, many liberals saw this as a baseless case of Islamophobia.

One was 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a precocious kid in a NASA T-shirt who had built a clock out of spare parts and brought it to school in a pencil case. I n 2015, in the Dallas suburb of Irving, the fates of two very different Texans collided.

Nice clock ahmed donald trump