Ilhan Omar claims Trump has a creepy obsession with her like birther claims against Obama

WASHINGTON — Rep.Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) claimed in a new interview that President Trump has a “creepy obsession” with her and is spreading “conspiracy theories” — likening the federal inquiry into her alleged immigration fraud to questions about former President Barack Obama’s birthplace.The Somalia-born progressive is under investigation by the Justice Department, which could yank her US citizenship if issues are found with her 2000 naturalization papers.

The Obama DOJ previously investigated her 2009 marriage to her alleged brother, Ahmed Elmi.“Trump has an unhealthy and creepy obsession with me.I represent everything Trump and today’s Republican Party seem to despise,” Omar told The Nation.

“I’m a woman, an immigrant, a refugee, a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, and someone who refuses to be intimidated into silence.”Omar, whose DC home was raided by federal agents on Oct.12, said Trump and other Republicans are targeting her with “racism, Islamophobia, conspiracy theories, and lies” to distract from “their own failures.”She said that Trump’s focus on her background is similar to his agitation to force Obama to produce his birth certificate — which Obama then did in 2011 — to debunk rumors that he was born in Kenya.“President Obama knows the world of right-wing conspiracies better than anyone.

In many ways, the conspiracy world I find myself in was created around him,” Omar told The Nation.“That is why he can so clearly see the purpose and contradictions of the lies being told about me.He knows that no amount of evidence or facts will ever be enough for these trolls, because they are not after the truth.

The conspiracy itself is what drives them.”The federal investigation of Omar focuses on whether she gained citizenship in 2000 using a false name or incorrect birthdate, and includes scrutiny into her father’s legal status in the country.The Justice Department referred to Omar in an Oct.21 court filing as “Co...