Not a surprise. There are many questions about Ilhan Omar, about her father’s application for asylum, about her brother whom she may have married to get him into the U.S., about her husband Tim Mynett’s financial dealings, about her sudden rise from a negative net worth in 2018 to as much as $30 million in 2024, followed by a sudden decline in that same net worth in 2026, according to Omar, to “a few thousand.” All that is passing strange, and surely enough to justify a search warrant enabling the Department of Homeland Security investigators to arrive at her house at 6 a.m. and proceed to search for, and take away, evidence. More on the raid can be found here: “Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home searched by federal agents in criminal probe,” by Kelly O’Donnell, Gabe Gutierrez and Megan Brand, NBC News, October 12, 2026:
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
One of the people familiar with the probe said the search is part of a yearslong criminal investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. attorney in Minneapolis and the Justice Department. The probe, which involves whistleblowers, documents and witness testimony, deals partly with immigration and fraud, but it goes beyond those things, the source said.
A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement that Homeland Security Investigations “executed a judicially authorized search warrant” as “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”
The statement did not specify that the warrant was related to Omar, D-Minn., or provide further information about the nature of the investigation.
In a post on X, Omar called the search “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” adding that over the last decade, President Donald Trump “has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.”
Trump has frequently lashed out at Omar, who is a member of a progressive faction of women in Congress collectively known as the “squad,” criticizing her over her liberal positions and saying she should “go back” to where she came from.
Asked about the search Monday, Trump told reporters he had “nothing to do with it,” adding that investigators were “looking at her very carefully.”
“I’ve always found her to be totally crooked, personally, but that has nothing to do with me,” Trump said. “I think she’s a terrible person, but that’s really up to the DOJ.”
House Democratic leaders said in a joint statement that the search was “deeply disturbing and raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries.”
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Minority Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar of California vowed in the statement to “deliver full accountability for the rogue abuse of power from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice.”…
Shouldn’t the House Democratic leaders have held back from commenting on the search until they find out what evidence of immigration fraud by Omar or other members of her family the DHS investigators now possess, that prompted the raid, or what further evidence they may now discover after the raid? Why rush to call this raid a “rogue abuse of power” when you have no idea what evidence prompted it in the first place?
In 2018, Ilhan Omar held a post-election victory party at The Safari, a Somali restaurant that Salim Ahmed Said had co-owned. Said was one of the many Somalis who was later convicted of welfare fraud. He had millions distributed to him as a participant in the fake nonprofit Feeding Our Future, that in the end cost the government $250 million. Said‘s Safari Restaurant was given millions to provide meals to schoolchildren.
Instead of feeding children, Mr. Said used the funds to buy a $2 million Minneapolis mansion and a $9,000-per-month shopping spree at Nordstrom, according to federal prosecutors. Ilhan Omar appeared in a video promoting the nonprofit. There have also been many stories about Ilhan Omar’s unusual immigration claims. The most widely known concerns her brother, whom she is accused of having married so that he could gain entry to the United States. Other stories are about her own application for such entry, filled out by her father when she was eight years old, and that appears to be the focus of the current investigation.
Apparently the DHS investigators had enough evidence to obtain a search warrant.
I am looking forward — aren’t you? — to this woman finally meeting her comeuppance.
somehistory says
elmi, jefferies and others are pointing dirty …filthy….fingers. I can recall the *raid* on Mar-A-Lago not that long ago….searching Mrs. Trump’s lingerie drawer. and none of those who are screaming about this, had any criticism of that raid.
ilhan elmi….the same last name as the *brother* she married…alias omar…is a criminal and a hypocrite.
The snake has a record…..she was charged years ago with trespassing. Questioned about her brother (the one she married), she **lied to Congress.** which is a crime.
This search for more evidence is long overdue. To get a judge to sign a search warrant, requires some evidence as a reason to search for more. I hope they found all they suspected was there.
Wellington says
She’s more than a crooked person. This woman has plainly evil designs upon America. Should she get all she wants for America it would be the death of America. The USA, which became the single greatest polity of all time, no exceptions (and with due regard extended here to other great polities like ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Dutch Republic and England from the Middle Ages to the 20th century), would have never become such if the Ilhan Omars of the world had had their way from America’s inception. Indeed, America would have become one gigantic Somalia-like state, which is to say another failed Muslim state replete with repression and a stultifying society.
Detestable woman. Ideally, she will be stripped of her American citizenship (what a travesty that such a person ever got it in the first place) and will be sent back to the Islamic Hell-hole which is Somalia. I’ll close here by noting the code name given to the raid on Omar’s home in DC—World War Eleven, which code name is a priceless one.
Istanbul_Chick says
It’s not a raid.
Some people did some things.
William David Pappas says
It is really rich for the Democrats to be decrying supposed weaponization of the Justice department in light of the egregious activities under the Obama and the Obama directing Biden regime. If these people didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.