Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of criminal investigation, AP sources say

[u/sleepDeprivedHuman]

https://apnews.com/article/ilhan-omar-home-searched-8e18c2aea948bd90f4d7a4eb32b9ec3a?utm_source=app&utm_medium=android_share&utm_campaign=copy_link

[u/Nick_crawler]

We'll be seeing more raids targeted at Democratic lawmakers in the months and years to come. They'll never amount to real charges, but that's not really the point.

[u/severedbrain → u/Nick_crawler]

It’s an excuse to steal documents. See, Nixon’s team got in trouble for breaking in to the DNC offices at the Watergate Hotel. Trump is just sending thugs with a badge to toss the place. Give it the veneer of legitimacy. Like his teeth.

[u/sephjnr → u/severedbrain]

Odd choice to call Putin's shit on his teeth a 'veneer'

[u/vector_ejector → u/sephjnr]

There's a lovely little shimmer if you catch them in the right light...

[u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 → u/Nick_crawler]

If MAGA remains in power indefinitely, there will eventually be the outright execution of Democrats. We're dealing with fascism, and history has already shown us quite clearly what happens next.

[u/HuoLongHeavy → u/Rich-Pomegranate1679]

That's exactly what they're building up to. That's why they're publicly executing a mass shooter, he's unquestionably a monster. So they're going to be given an inch and will take a mile.

[u/Jukka_Sarasti → u/Rich-Pomegranate1679]

If MAGA remains in power indefinitely, there will eventually be the outright execution of Democratics. We're dealing with fascism, and history has already shown us quite clearly what happens next.

I can absolutely see this happening. Maybe they'll call it 'reparations' and allow their frothing base to keep the possessions of the victims. Even the most die-hard and devoted of their base will eventually expect something for their loyalty and this would be one way to give them a little bread to go along with the circus.

[u/fleemfleemfleemfleem → u/Nick_crawler]

Even assuming that they would bother needing a pretext, it's so easy to "create a criminal." Ex left behind their adderall in the medicine cabinet? If you pick locks as a hobby, you have burglary tools. Stash cash for emergencies? Encrypted hard drive? Republicans made a meal out of Clinton having a home server.

[u/akpenguin → u/fleemfleemfleemfleem]

Clinton having a home server.

But leaving a bunch of boxes of classified materials in a bathroom is the proper procedure for their guy.

[u/Jukka_Sarasti → u/akpenguin]

Clinton having a home server.

But leaving a bunch of boxes of classified materials in a bathroom is the proper procedure for their guy.

They are deeply, irredeemably, hypocritical...

[u/SockMonkeh → u/Jukka_Sarasti]

For the last time they are not hypocritical, they're just fucking lying.

[u/RollingDownhill303 → u/akpenguin]

Next to a fucking copying machine too...

[u/Enygma_6 → u/akpenguin]

Hey, those documents were only stuffed into the bathroom after they found out that they needed the stage where they were previously stashed for something else.

[u/lew_rong → u/Enygma_6]

And let's be honest, donnie boy can't lift anything over about 7.5oz without help, so he's kinda useless at stuffing boxes onto Moscow-bound planes

[u/cakedayCountdown → u/akpenguin]

It’s almost as if they didn’t actually care about the server and just wanted an excuse to vote against a woman and a democrat.

[u/Correct_Routine1 → u/fleemfleemfleemfleem]

Clinton’s Benghazi investigation was to do that as well, they even said so. Republican House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, told Sean Hannity on Fox News, "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping."

[u/Paizzu → u/fleemfleemfleemfleem]

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior.

Harvey Silverglate's Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

[u/frongles23 → u/Paizzu]

This book is an attempt to argue against government and is largely overblown.

[u/Paizzu → u/frongles23]

argue against government

Because arguing against the government is anathema to productive discourse? Last time I checked, the DOJ (whom we're arguing against in this very thread) is part of the three branches of government.

Don't take my advise. Listen to a law professor explaining why you should "never talk to the police" due to the spurious nature in which they can manufacture prosecutions.

[u/CrotalusHorridus → u/Nick_crawler]

They'll never amount to real charges

Don't be so sure about that. If the current GOP feels they can't win legitimately, they'll start jailing their opponents.

Its been the authoritarian/fascist playbook for generations.

[u/jcooli09 → u/CrotalusHorridus]

They have failed to capture much of the the judiciary. Betond a few outliers judges still require valid arguments and evidence which withstands scrutiny.

[u/Unfair_Web_8275 → u/Nick_crawler]

Between this and Hegseth announcing that public execution, it looks like the GOP is putting everything they have into Islamophobia.

[u/Oceanbreeze871 → u/Nick_crawler]

Donald is obsessed with her

[u/duyogurt]

I’m sure this is all on the up and up. Absolutely positive this raid was by the book.

[u/StepsOnLEGO → u/duyogurt]

Raided by the same people who killed the investigation into Susan Collins. Totally legit here.

[u/Phyrexian_Archlegion → u/duyogurt]

You mean MAGA morons in government are so dumb they are literally setting up the precedent of investigating and prosecuting themselves after the blue tsunami washes over elections this November? Sign me up.

[u/CrotalusHorridus → u/Phyrexian_Archlegion]

They're sure they're never giving up power. And if we don't fight, thats exactly whats going to happen.

[u/-LabApprehensive- → u/CrotalusHorridus]

Yes they absolutely will. Even Yarvin realized the highwater mark was last February and it is all downhill for the right from here on out. Trump spent his political capital stealing money and backing russia rather than consolidating power. Now we swing hard left.

[u/flargenhargen → u/-LabApprehensive-]

lol.

I think you're a fool, but I hope you're right, and I am the fool.

[u/Dowager-queen-beagle → u/Phyrexian_Archlegion]

You know that this is not going to happen tho, right

[u/Desperides → u/Dowager-queen-beagle]

Right?  Only one side ever gets away with this, and then the other side is all like, 'Ooh, let's take the high road.  Surely when these people face no consequences at all for their actions they will change their ways!'

[u/flargenhargen → u/Desperides]

remember when we gave democrats control of EVERYTHING and they promised to hold trump accountable for his crimes then didn't do a single god damn thing? leading to the literal end of democracy?

yea, that.

[u/Snarky1Bunny → u/duyogurt]

I want to know what joke of a judge signed that warrant. Probably the same one that approved seizing ballots in Fulton County.

[u/wino12312 → u/duyogurt]

What most concerns me is that career law enforcement officials are going along with this. And did they get a judge to agree to this? It seems that along with pizzagate, the deep state is also a manifestation of their own behaviors.

[u/Eye_Re-fuse → u/wino12312]

I’m sure it was a Republican judge that Trump put in place.

[u/wolf3685 → u/wino12312]

Career law enforcement moonlights as ICE, and the vast majority are pro-pedo White nationalists

[u/going_for_a_wank → u/wino12312]

The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that HSI agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the department in the Washington, D.C., area but provided no other details.

According to the Justice Department, they did have a warrant.

Curious to see whether there really is something to this, or whether they have found a judge who is willing to play along with whatever nonsense they cook up

[u/ring2ding → u/duyogurt]

Which book? Project 2025? Mein Kampf?

[u/Wolfram_And_Hart → u/duyogurt]

That’s the problem with a damaged reputation, we simply can’t trust what they are saying as truth.

[u/schmeckmaster2000 → u/[deleted]]

Given how many examples of politically motivated "investigations" this administration has undertaken that went nowhere, the chances of this raid being "justifiable" are pretty much zero.

[u/Manta_of_Eternity]

Leveraging powers of the state against a political opponent, who saw that coming

The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents

Of course it's Homeland Security behind this

[u/ImInJeopardy]

Trump has spent years claiming that democrats weaponized the federal government against him, when in reality they always had legitimate reasons to look into the things he was doing.

Now he's the one actually weaponizing the federal government against his political enemies, giving no justification for it, and I'm sure his followers will just say "Oh, so it was ok for Biden to do it?!"

Anyone with more than one brain cell can the the plot from a mile away.

[u/kradaan → u/ImInJeopardy]

His zealots are all but rabid over this. Literally been spoon fed so much outrage using 1/2 truths & lies ,they truly think democrats are just like their orange savior. They just think democrats are better protecting each other & not that their clerics have been lying to them.

[u/Less_Resident8492 → u/kradaan]

No one cares what his zealots think. It's the other 60 million people who voted for him in 2024 because they were convinced he was on their side that will see this and be impacted.

[u/deytookerrspeech → u/ImInJeopardy]

Every accusation is an admission. Every single one.

[u/yhwhx]

Is that maybe fascism I'm smelling?

[u/BeIgnored → u/yhwhx]

Exactly. And somehow there's no investigation of Susan Collins or  Kimberly Guilfoyle. Or anyone in the Epstein files for that matter.

[u/lucygoosey38 → u/yhwhx]

It’s already here. Concentration camps and all

[u/StarSpectre → u/lucygoosey38]

Looked it up the other day and there are more people in camps in the USA now, than there were in Nazi Germany until sometime in 1941.

[u/popodelfuego → u/yhwhx]

It's been boiling over for a long time.

[u/TriTexh → u/popodelfuego]

America as a whole has always had something of a fascist lean (or at least a fascination) even through its most liberal governments

This one is just naked and "in your face"

[u/likamuka → u/yhwhx]

America 2026 is like Germany in 1936. But in Germany there was way more resistance than in the USA.

[u/Leucastic_Leopard → u/yhwhx]

But that will never happen because my cousin, with the arsenal, said they owned guns to keep that from happening. So, either this isn't fascism or the magical gun talismans aren't working.

[u/bacon-squared → u/yhwhx]

When do these investigation cross the line into fabricated evidence? When does it become when an opponent says something you don’t like they got tossed in prison for fabricated charges?

[u/Hrekires]

Meanwhile the entire Republican half of the Senate is still melting down over the fact that Jack Smith subpoenaed phone records from January 6th.

Not even the calls themselves, just the meta data of who was in touch with the White House and at what times.

[u/EmptyAirEmptyHead → u/Hrekires]

You know how conservatives say if you have nothing to feat just cooperate? Well, they know who they called that day and they have something to fear ....

[u/hefty_load_o_shite]

"Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of racist harassment campaign, AP sources say". There, fify

[u/tabrizzi → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

No, it's political intimidation.

[u/quiestdeus → u/tabrizzi]

por que no los dos?

[u/Yesterday_Jolly → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

It needs to be racist to appeal to the base of course

[u/fr0stpun]

I love the absence of Russian Bots. There's like two bootlickers/pedo supporters in this entire post and they've all been ratioed.

[u/FloridaStig → u/fr0stpun]

Thanks, Ukraine!

[u/gelatinouscone → u/FloridaStig]

The best orcs feed flowers

[u/Akron44332]

All this does is turn more people to vote Democrat. You know Trump is behind this. WHat an ass.

[u/mrdominoe → u/Akron44332]

All this does is turn more people to vote Democrat.

Not really. All it will do is let the Republican racists point to this news and see "I TOLD YOU SO!" and fall even deeper into their psychosis.

[u/echoshizzle → u/Akron44332]

You truly have zero idea wtf is happening in America. This news will not reach who it needs to, and that’s by design.

[u/Timely-Cry-8366 → u/echoshizzle]

Yeah, I have a few family members who love Trump, they started believing in 2020 that all media was controlled by liberals and is full of lies and is an anti-Trump psyop. They’re not going to care about any news articles.

[u/Omisco420 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

They only believe right wing talk radio. Which is some of the worst and dishonest media on earth.

[u/Timely-Cry-8366 → u/Omisco420]

My relatives follow those awful YouTube channels with fake footage.

[u/half_dozen_cats → u/Omisco420]

AM radio is pretty much a hell scape now.

[u/CasinoNdnOk → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

I find public humiliation tends to help break them.

[u/SpleenBender → u/CasinoNdnOk]

But so many of them just simply have NO SHAME.

[u/HighburyOnStrand → u/SpleenBender]

I think you underestimate the power of something being "not cool" anymore.

These people showed their true faces because it become "edgy" and "rebellious" in the wake of Trump. It wasn't cool before, those people were shamed into at least sanding down their worst impulses but society refusing to accept that behavior. It made you a fucking loser.

Lame is just as important as shame.

[u/grendus → u/HighburyOnStrand]

We really should have tripled down on calling them "weird" in '24. They're weirdly sensitive about that.

[u/dogged_jon → u/SpleenBender]

That is kind of their core thing

[u/Timely-Cry-8366 → u/SpleenBender]

Like those trumpers who wore diapers publically.

[u/CasinoNdnOk → u/SpleenBender]

I promise you I can make them find some real quick. Usually wrapping some physical flaw into why they made that choice.

[u/Jesus_on_a_biscuit → u/CasinoNdnOk]

If it doesn’t break them, it at least makes me feel better. So there’s that.

[u/mtypockets → u/CasinoNdnOk]

These people cannot be humbled..especially by facts!

[u/smokeweedNgarden → u/CasinoNdnOk]

Only if their family and friends step up.

I never knew any but there are plenty who just nod and smile

[u/TheQuietManUpNorth → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Meanwhile it's now almost exclusively owned by Trump allies.

[u/Trekfull → u/echoshizzle]

It's certainly not going to change minds. The people that support Trump will continue to support the weaponization of the Justice Department.

[u/kevonicus → u/echoshizzle]

Even if it does it wouldn’t change anything. They’ve been brainwashed to think this woman is evil incarnate. The FBI could shoot her in the head for no reason and they would cheer.

[u/Good_Restaurant15 → u/Akron44332]

Nah, those people have long since turned - the ones capable of reason and observing the things around them without succumbing to propaganda have already switched.

The rest don't care enough to pay attention, or are in the cult.

[u/Rep2025 → u/Akron44332]

This does absolutely NOTHING, except fires up his supporters and creates soundbite news for propoganda

Ain't NOBODY turning blue because of this.

[u/Observational-Mess → u/Akron44332]

That’s wishful thinking. MAGA loves the current regime.

[u/Unfinished-Basement → u/Akron44332]

Unfortunately I fear that here in Minnesota, the wolf-cried-fraud line is working very well. They know how to push button the rubes.

[u/manuduncan6666 → u/[deleted]]

What can the average citizen do though? I vote but how does my vote for whatever progressive/democratic candidate help curtail shit like this? What else can someone do

I feel so helpless and I’m sure it’s by design

[u/Kradget → u/manuduncan6666]

It's definitely by design. 

The vote undercuts their power later. That works directly (they get fewer supporters in the legislature) and indirectly (if they get demolished in the vote, people will continue to cut ties and isolate them).

You can also help other people to vote.

You can protest. That gets handwaved a lot, but conservatives are scared shitless of mass protests - that's why they always want to overreact. 

You can call other politicians and demand action. Point out that this sure seems to be a clear abuse of power to intimidate political opposition, and tell them you want it stopped and investigated.

[u/Wally-Walker → u/manuduncan6666]

That is the point of all this; making you feel helpless and that your vote doesn’t matter is the goal - your vote isn’t useless until you’re not allowed to do it.

[u/manuduncan6666 → u/Wally-Walker]

That’s what’s so disheartening though, I’ve voted in every election since I’ve been able and everything’s gone to shit anyway

[u/Wally-Walker → u/manuduncan6666]

It’s not easy but you giving up is their best outcome.

[u/vTbBqcoB → u/manuduncan6666]

This is the beginning. Trumps administration will not give up power, election results will be ignored.

Vote.

Afterwards, when they steal the election we will need to mobilize and march. The trump administration will react with extreme violence and more Americans will be needed to support the injured and push on.

[u/Status_Apartment6559 → u/vTbBqcoB]

They will not be successful in stealing the vote.

[u/sixtyninth_wave_emo → u/manuduncan6666]

We feel helpless because we have no real leaders. The current crop of democrats, especially in congress, are just not rising to the moment. We’re going to have to rebuild the party

[u/Xytak → u/manuduncan6666]

Realistically? Vote in November and talk to anyone who will listen. The Republicans know they’re likely to lose the midterms and they’re scared, but we still have at least two more years of this and however long it will take to fix the Court. Just gotta hang in there.

[u/Negative-Squirrel81 → u/manuduncan6666]

Voting is the most important thing you can do. If they weren’t scared of your vote they wouldn’t be trying so hard to suppress it.

[u/the_other_50_percent → u/Negative-Squirrel81]

It’s actually not the most important thing you can do, because it’s only one vote. Being part of organizing, advocating, educating, and activating is the most import at things you can do. That’s tens, hundreds, and thousands of votes.

[u/NoInevitable9810 → u/manuduncan6666]

Vote, get your friend who don’t vote to vote. That’s what you can do, this election matters

[u/Cetun → u/[deleted]]

Eh, they were doing it to poor people, minorities, and journalists for decades. Not one of these politicians were interested in reigning the polices power to do this. The chickens are coming home to roost and I promise you they will hold onto it as a weapon to use against the poor rather than abolish it or make it more painful for the police to do things like this.

[u/fellindeep23]

So they can anonymously confirm she's under criminal investigation but can't anonymously confirm about what. Shows it's a sham.

[u/sanverstv]

There is nothing legit about this. The Justice Department is no longer working for the American people. Just like ICE, it's part of Trump's jack-boot army.

[u/PhamilyTrickster]

Did they already have a specific crime in mind or were they just digging to see what they could find?

[u/JimboTCB → u/PhamilyTrickster]

Fox are reporting that they're investigating immigration paperwork which was filled out by her father when she was a child

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omars-home-dc-searched-hsi-pre-dawn-raid

Federal authorities on Monday morning raided the Washington, D.C., area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork filled out by her father, Fox News reported, citing a person familiar with the situation.

So the "immigration fraud investigation" is into her father (who is dead) and she's been a US citizen in her own right for over two decades now anyway.

[u/NCSUGrad2012 → u/PhamilyTrickster]

Yes, they claim she married her brother, despite the fact there's no evidence for it. They want to use this "evidence" to remove her citizenship and deport her

[u/chiefmackdaddypuff → u/NCSUGrad2012]

Brother or cousin?

[u/DavidlikesPeace]

Does anybody here actually think this is normal? 

The MAGA regime are untrustworthy vindictive shits. This is the atrocious weaponization of law they always claimed to be against. In reality, they just wanted to be the ones with the boot. 

[u/N8CCRG]

Better name the judge that signed that warrant

[u/awhq]

So politically motivated harassment? Not surprised.

[u/Aszolus]

Bold of them to do this now, while the russian bots can't defend it online.

[u/vasta2]

Just normal democracy things, nothing to panic about

[u/Ben_Thar]

That's what she gets. Bet she's been to an Atlanta Hawks game.

[u/osirus35]

I wonder what judge they lied to to get that warrant

[u/Grantdawg → u/osirus35]

Aileen Cannon enters the chat....

They have too many sycophant judges that are willing to do their bidding.

[u/BaconManDan9]

Do Vivek Ramaswamy next

[u/toosinbeymen]

Federal agents = recipients of the latest fell for it again award.

[u/Ronho]

I can’t think of an action this administration has taken that didn’t scream Tiny Dick Energy

[u/alpharaptor1]

Why are we waiting for the frog to jump out of the water when it's frog soup?

[u/chrisproglf]

Just another example of Biden's weaponized DOJ /s

[u/Oddman80]

Criminal how?? Immigration in a civil matter, and the only one who ever filled out paper work for her immigration was her currently deceased father - back when she was a small child.

In what possible scenario does a judge sign a warrant to search the home of a US Representative in the hope of finding documents the person's deceased father filled out decades earlier?!?

[u/Brand023]

He's hated her for a very long time, don't expect it to be the last brown person they target.

[u/Winter_Whole2080]

What are the charges? Eating a meal? A succulent Somali meal??!?

I soooo want her team to release that exact statement to the press as her response to the trump thuggery.

[u/DarkLordKohan]

Weaponization of the government continues against Trump’s political foes.

[u/Texas_Naturalist]

I fucking hate dictators.

[u/jcooli09]

I wonder if tbis happened while Jack Smith was getting grilled about reviewing the phone records of traitors.

[u/AceDuce23]

How come it's never "going after political opponents" when it's trump frivolously going after people that's against him?

[u/flargenhargen]

will those responsible for blatant illegal abuse of power ever be held accountable?

this is 3rd world shithole dictator shit.

[u/Jeromes_Pornostache]

They know they won’t find anything, but that doesn’t matter.  It’s the headline that’s important.

[u/Grantdawg → u/Jeromes_Pornostache]

I think they might have brought in exactly what they hoped to "fine."

[u/Whosebert]

easy impeachment for any other president

[u/Curious-Emu3894]

Convicted criminal and rapist, Trump, is acting even more criminal by weaponizing our judicial system.

[u/WarbossTodd]

Suspected of being brown in America.

[u/Antique-Cheesecake63]

Americans just make me sad at this point. Supplying Russia with money to commit a systematic elimination of a group of people is the latest atrocity with absolutely 0 resolve from the people.

[u/ThePensiveE]

Every MAGA politician should have their lives turned inside out by a new justice department.

The difference is they're all fucking criminals. Even the "moderates" like Susan Collins are engaged in criminal schemes to steal from the taxpayers.

[u/wdwdreamer1206]

It's an intimidation tactic. They have no evidence of any wrongdoing.

[u/xkxe003 → u/[deleted]]

Because she was a child when they alleged incident took part. She literally cannot be guilty. Her citizenship cannot be in question either. You people really fit the "I can say the stupidest things, and you'd clap".

[u/Direct_Juice → u/[deleted]]

Why are you a white male Trump supporter pretending to be a black woman with your avatar?

[u/Panasax]

I know that the chances of these fascist traitors ever facing consequences are slim to none, but after I vote blue in the upcoming election I will be pushing in every way I can to have them prosecuted to the fullest extent possible. This kind of blatant corruption antithetical to the idea of America needs to be made an example of.

[u/freedfg → u/[deleted]]

Does it matter?

They still pretend she's married to her brother and is involved in early development fraud.

The raid IS the point. They won't actually have anything come from it that can be proven false.

[u/YANGxGANG → u/freedfg]

The process is the punishment

[u/PatchyWhiskers → u/freedfg]

Right. The politically disengaged will think “no smoke without fire”

[u/brandt-money]

There will be no serious charges and anything they try to throw to a real judge will be laughed at and thrown out.

[u/Deatheturtle]

Straight up harrassment.

[u/ChocoPuddingCup]

Illegal search and seizure under false pretenses by a fascist regime. That's what this is.

[u/crappydeli]

The only way to stop the government from doing this is to vote.

[u/FrostyWalrus2]

I know its never happening, but, with this precedent, I hope the terrorist orgs at J6 get labelled as such, and that any congress people with ties to them get raided.

[u/Talentagentfriend]

“as part of a fake criminal investigation“ FTFY

[u/Status_Apartment6559]

FULL BLOWN FASCISM. If you value your rights and freedom vote blue in the midterms. They are kidnapping innocent immigrants and American citizens off the street and throwing them into ICE gulags where they are dying due to catastrophic conditions. This is no joke.

[u/Coach_Rick_Vice]

Highly likely this is a bs raid, god damn leave Minnesota the fuck alone!

[u/DmeshOnPs5]

GTFOH, ilhan hasn’t done anything wrong, the right wing is just a bunch of racist assholes who believe any lie as long as it’s racist and violent