Rep.Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told MS NOW Wednesday night that she believes the raid on her home was to "intimidate and scare people" away from voting in the midterm elections.Omar's home in Washington, D.C., was raided by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) last Monday in connection to an investigation into potential immigration fraud.
Authorities are probing whether Omar or her father lied on paperwork that helped her gain citizenship.Border czar Tom Homan has said that if the allegations are proven, Omar could be denaturalized.Omar, who has largely avoided public scrutiny since the raid, gave her first interview on the subject on "All In with Chris Hayes" and suggested that the decision to investigate her was a last-ditch effort by President Donald Trump to appeal to right-wing influencers.DEMOCRATS HAVE ‘DIRTY HANDS’ OVER COMPLAINTS ABOUT OMAR RAID WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION, EX-PROSECUTOR SAYSRep.
Ilhan Omar's home in Washington D.C.was raided last week in connection to an immigration fraud investigation.
(Getty Images)"I think they were like starting to lose faith that these were empty promises, and they had to do something, I believe, to say, 'Hey, look, we raided her house.You know, now you can feel comfortable that we are doing something,'" Omar said.
"I think ...whether it’s Metro Surge, whether it is the voter rolls that they’re looking at, whether it’s the door knocks that you just spoke of, that is all to show these people that they’re doing something and to save face." "Because they made this huge promise that there was somehow this massive ...
sort of undocumented people that were voting in American elections and that there is something that they need to go and fix.""And so they, you know, they’re going to try to gin up this sort of frenzy," she added."And, I think ultimately their goal is to intimidate and scare people from wanting to participate and vote."SOMALIS IN MINNESOTA UNLEASH FURY ON TRUMP AFTER FEDS RAID ILHAN OMAR'S DC HOMERe...