During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show” on Monday, Government Accountability Institute president, Peter Schweizer, said former President Barack Obama defending Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) shows Democrats are worried about the federal investigation into her. Schweizer,

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Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, acknowledged on Tuesday morning there was a “political layer” to the Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Federal agents searched the Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing criminal probe into allegations of fraud and false statements made in immigration…

El asedio de la Administración Trump contra la legisladora ocurren porque la misma se atrevió a cuestionar las políticas presidenciales.

Ex-president urges Americans to defend congresswoman, saying ‘there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her’

Former US president Barack Obama condemned comments by Donald Trump’s “border czar” that the Republican presidential administration could “of course” strip Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her.

Obama wrote Sunday morning, on X, that “the full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.”

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Minnesota lawmaker’s attorneys asked for return of seized items and the preservation of any recordings of search

Ilhan Omar’s attorneys have asked the US Department of Justice to return property that federal agents removed days earlier from her home during a search.

The lawyers for the Minnesota Democrat contended that the seizure as “neither justified nor lawful”, according to a letter that the Associated Press reported on Friday.

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This week, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the federal government's raid of Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., residence and question the temporary pause of U.S. intelligence support to Ukraine. Next, the boys exchange mishaps—Robby lost his phone, and Christian had a bad experience at a local restaurant—before decrying the Pentagon's idea to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter. Next, Christian gives a rave review for the new movie Primetime, and Robby shares a positive reaction to Greta Gerwig's first trailer for The Magician's Nephew. Finally, they wrap with some cultural commentary, striving to answer the age-old question of whether or not women dress like "whores" at the gym.

0:00—The politicized raid on Omar

12:40—U.S.-Ukraine dynamics

26:55—Do not lose your phone.

39:10—Christian might leave a two-star restaurant review.

46:00—Livestreaming the Fort Hood shooter's execution was a grotesque idea.

53:20—Christian wholeheartedly recommends Primetime.

1:02:40—Robby enjoyed the trailer for The Magician's Nephew. 

1:10:10—Shane Gillis' Saturday Night Live monologue

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La investigación federal busca revocar la ciudadanía a la congresista bajo el alegato de presuntas inconsistencias en su edad al momento de ingresar como refugiada somalí.

The scope of the investigation into Omar is unclear, though Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has suggested that authorities were examining potential crimes related to her family's immigration paperwork.

President Donald Trump's administration has taken the unusual step of searching Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in Washington, just three weeks before the midterm election.

Federal agents searched the Washington, D.C., home of Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar early Monday. Agents with Homeland Security Investigations were seen carrying boxes from the home. Rep. Omar accused the Trump administration of political intimidation. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Devlin Barrett, a New York Times reporter and author of "The Department of Revenge."

This is an escalation in a criminal investigation of US Rep. Ilhan Omar, in the final weeks of her reelection bid. She is a frequent target of Israel partisans and the Trump Administration over her opposition to Israel's human rights violations and the Israel lobby's destructive influence in the US