Obama Condemns Ilhan Omar Investigation That He Himself Started – Plus 6 More Examples of His Complete Hypocrisy
Barack Obama is back out on the campaign trail for Democrats, and — wouldn’t you know it? — he has Some Thoughts™ about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s immigration woes.
The Minnesota Democrat, as you’ve doubtlessly heard, had her house raided on Oct. 12, and things have gone downhill from there.
Among other problems, it turns out that “Ilhan Omar” almost certainly isn’t her real name, she almost certainly married her brother, and she almost certainly fudged her birthdate to get U.S. citizenship.
It also seems very likely that, by continuing to stick by these lies and repeat them on official forms, she’s committed some form of ongoing fraud which could end with the Somali-American lawmaker being denaturalized.
So yeah, Obama’s not happy about this investigation, calling it a politicized stunt on behalf of President Donald Trump. Too bad it’s actually his investigation, but this is hardly the first time he’s blamed the Republicans for stuff that he did himself.
“It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota,” Obama said in a post on X earlier this month.
“Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country,” he continued.
“Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.”