Republicans hope there are lots of Democrats who won’t win re-election next week and return to Capitol Hill.Republicans are imploring voters to kick them out.But President Trump is focused on bouncing one Democrat from Congress who likely wins re-election in a solidly blue district.
That’s Rep.Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
She carried her district two years ago with nearly three-quarters of the vote.But President Trump questions whether Omar is in the country legally and, therefore, qualified to sit in Congress."She used a fake name to be sworn in," said the President.
"She's a little troublemaker."The Department of Justice is investigating Omar for potential immigration fraud.Federal authorities raided her Washington, DC home recently and removed 17 items.
That included phones, notebooks, a camera and a Somali phrase book for her kids.An image of Ilhan Omar overlaid over her neighborhood in DC.(Getty Images)President Trump suggests that her name is not "Ilhan Omar" and that it’s "an entirely different name name.
Ihan Nur Sayeed Elmi.It's close."A federal filing in that inquiry lists the Congresswoman’s name as "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar."That’s why the President says "she must immediately resign from Congress."A reporter for Fox Digital confronted the Congresswoman about her name.SOMALI RAP PROMISING TO 'SCATTER' ENEMIES UNDERSCORES OMAR'S SERENE LAKESIDE VIDEO"Is your name Ilhan Sayed, Ilhan Nur Sayed Alami, or Ilhan Abdullahi Omar?" asked Rashid Umar Abbasi, working for Fox."Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.
You know it," replied Omar."Ma'am?" asked Abbasi for clarification."It's Ilhan Abdullahi Omar," she confirmed.The Clerk of the House of Representatives officially lists the Congresswoman as solely "Ilhan Omar" on 15 different financial disclosure reports dating back to 2018.That’s even before she entered Congress.
The same with the Minnesota state legislature where Omar served prior to coming to Washington.The discrepancy is why the Presi...