Ilhan Omar is likely to be found completely innocent of any wrongdoing, no matter what the facts of the case may be. Why? Because as a quadruple victim — female, migrant, black, Muslim — she has a coveted protected status in American society today, and privilege to do essentially whatever she wants. I’m not saying she is guilty of violating any laws here, although there is plenty of evidence of her violating other laws. I’m just saying that no matter what she has done, she is golden. If she were a Christian male born in the U.S., however, she might be in prison today.
“Minneapolis police investigating ballot harvesting claims amid allegations surrounding Omar,” by Sam Dorman, Fox News, September 28, 2020:
The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating claims by right-wing activist group Project Veritas that individuals tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., engaged in illegal ballot harvesting before the election.
“The Minneapolis Police Department is aware of the allegations of vote harvesting. We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements,” a department statement read on Monday. “No further information is available at this time on this.”…
“This is totally illegal,” Trump said Sunday, linking to an article on the issue. “Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not??? We will win Minnesota because of her, and law enforcement. Saved Minneapolis & Iron O Range!”
Omar responded on Monday by mocking Trump over a New York Times report detaiing how, in 2016, he paid $750 in income taxes.
Project Veritas, a controversial group that has produced a number of misleading videos, claims that a local community leader, Omar Jarmal, blew the whistle on the Minnesota congresswoman’s alleged corruption.
Fox citing NPR to establish that a pro-freedom group’s work, which is based on unaltered video footage, is “misleading.” It’s a sign of how much Fox has deteriorated.
“It’s an open secret,” he reportedly said. “she [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that.”
The investigation purports to show a ballot harvester claiming that he received money to obtain ballots. It also highlights an alleged harvester who boasts about the number of ballots he’s collected for a local official.
PV also claims to have spoken with a former campaign worker who indicated that Omar’s team paid voters for ballots.
According to Newsweek, Omar’s senior communications director, Jeremy Slevin, blasted the investigation as an attempt to delegitimize the election.
“The amount of truth to this story is equal to the amount Donald Trump paid in taxes of ten out of the last fifteen years: zero. And amplifying a coordinated right-wing campaign to delegitimize a free and fair election this fall undermines our democracy,” he said.