Posted on 10/12/2026 6:52:38 PM PDT by thegagline
“Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) defiantly broke her silence after a Homeland Security Investigations raid of her DC residence on Monday, as she and her allies claimed the action was part of President Trump’s repeated attempts to intimidate her as a political foe.
“I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” Omar said in a statement on X. “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.”
“I will not be silenced,” the congresswoman added in a personal response to the president.
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“DHS raiding a member of congress’s home is exactly what a fascist police state does,” Tlaib wrote in an X post.
Omar’s spokesperson Jacklyn Rogers also said that her boss had “done nothing wrong.”
*** One recounted hearing a “loud banging” on the “Squad” rep’s door at around 4 or 5 a.m., followed by “a man screaming, ‘Open the door, open the door.”
Sources familiar with the law enforcement action indicated that the congresswoman had been the subject of a multi-year probe related to her immigration history, potentially as a result of her father making a false statement on paperwork.
Omar could potentially face denaturalization — though the process would likely take years and prompt a legal challenge — if it’s determined that false statements were made on immigration forms. ***
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“I’ve always found her to be totally crooked personally, but that has nothing to do with me,” Trump said later Monday.
“I think she’s a terrible person. Just a complainer. She comes from a country that is a non-country. And then she comes over here, and she complains about our Constitution,” he added.***
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“ I will not be silenced”
Any time Trump goes in for such a raid, he has all the leverage he needs
Make no mistake.
She can bloviate to her heart’s content from Somalia. Get her packed up and gone fast.
“I will not be silenced,” the congresswoman added in a personal response to the president.“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.”
“Trump’s doing what millions of Americans
want him to do......expose your criminality.”
I expected it to be “I’m going to tell Brother!”
Turn about is fair play. I remember a former presidents home was raided. For no real reason during a bogus investigation.
Flap your gums all you wish,you pig fornicating savage.But President Donald Trump is gonna see to it that you do so either in Mogadishu...in in a Federal prison.
Perhaps Omar’s deportation could be scheduled for same date as Nidal Malik Hasan‘s execution. A double-feature. Must see tv!
A couple of somebodies (GOPe) must be dragging their administrative feet on this case.
Hey, your guys already did this to Trump and his wife.
So, lady, shut up.
As is her First Amendment right.
That said, I just checked with online AI and surprise-surprise, Somalia has no guaranteed freedom.
All well and good, Ilhan, just remember that you will have the RIGHT to remain silent when they arrest you. (hopefully)
“ Perhaps Omar’s deportation…”
I recommend to people stepping back. They don’t listen to me. But that doesn’t change my recommendation
Every step now is an example. Not for us. We’re supposed to get back to work and play. Taking care of business and family
But the Omar’s. They’re not doing that. They are on a mission. This happened around the same time talarico disappeared. 12 days. That rounds to two weeks, not one. Even Fox is pushing one week. It’s two
What freaked him out to run away?
That’s what I’m looking at as the value of this thing and the Hasan court martial death by firing squad announcement
But ya. He’s getting more and more leverage. He wrote tge book on leverage. It works in business, families and politics.
Pretty sure she could run from Mogadishu or a prison and still get elected to congress in her district... Sad but true.
“ I will not be silenced
As is her First Amendment right.”
Her father was a colonel in the Somali military
See ‘Black Hawk Down”
Those guys. Um. Enemy
Word is he fudged his immigration papers and didn’t mention that. Further fudging, she was listed by him as 17 y/o. The suspicion is she was an ineligible 18 y/o
However it turns out, touting her rights under at least those conditions ought to be held off
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And no, to the best of my limited knowledge, CNN gleefully giving live coverage.
What goes around ...
Comes around
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