Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will not be silenced after federal agents searched her home today.
Last month Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin put his hand on a MAGA influencer’s shoulder and promised that “something’s going to happen” to the Minnesota Democrat. His agents arrived before sunrise with a warrant, three weeks before she faces reelection. The Justice Department, which secured that warrant, tells its own prosecutors to hold off on steps like this so close to an election.
Omar is one of Donald Trump’s fiercest critics, and he has attacked her for years. He told reporters investigators were “looking at her very carefully,” then insisted he had “nothing to do with it.” Tonight at a rally in Ohio, he said, “I don’t know what they’re doing with it, but I can tell you this: she’s a disaster.”
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