EXCLUSIVE: TYLER, Texas — Vice President JD Vance told Fox News Digital the Trump administration has no plans to "butt in" on a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into Rep.Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., after the raid on her Washington, D.C.
home the day prior.Vance, however, insisted that the law will be enforced if immigration fraud is uncovered."We don't want to be like the Biden administration.We never want to be like that — where they would allow the law to go after their political opponents," the vice president said in an exclusive interview following a midterm campaign rally in the Lone Star State on Tuesday."We really want to let the law, the facts drive this," he continued.
"And if justice requires something else be done, then, of course, we'll take a step when we have to."Omar's Washington, D.C., home was subject to a predawn raid on Monday conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the principle investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as first reported by Fox News Digital.Homeland Security Investigations police search the home of Rep.Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on October 12, 2026 in Washington, DC.
(Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)DEMOCRATS' FURY OVER ILHAN OMAR RAID DRAWS STINGING GOP REMINDER ABOUT RAID FROM THE PAST: ‘SET THE PRECEDENT’Conservatives repeatedly accused then-President Joe Biden's DOJ of politically persecuting President Donald Trump and his allies after his first term in office ended.Most notably for critics, Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was infamously raised by the FBI as part of an investigation into alleged mishandling of classified documents.That case was closed when Trump again won the presidency in 2024."In the Trump administration, unlike the previous administration, we let the facts and the law drive this stuff — so the president and I really don't butt ourselves in the DOJ investigations," Vance said.
"We're not trying to micromanage this.We're not trying to tell [Attorney General] Todd Blanche to d...