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President Donald Trump on Saturday went after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), again invoking her Somali heritage and urging her to \u201cgo back,\u201d a line he has used several times since taking office.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe should go back!\u201d Trump\u00a0said\u00a0on Truth Social, alongside a video clip of Omar speaking to a crowd in which she said her allegiance would always be with her native country.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear when the video was recorded, but the footage has circulated for weeks on conservative-leaning social media accounts.<\/p>\n
Omar was born in Somalia and fled the country\u2019s civil war at age 8, later spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to the United States in 1995.<\/p>\n
She became an American citizen in 2000 and has served in Congress since 2019.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s latest post quickly gained traction online, with supporters including conservative activist Laura Loomer amplifying it across social media platforms.<\/p>\n
The former president\u2019s comments come amid renewed scrutiny of Omar\u2019s record in Congress and her frequent clashes with House Republicans.<\/p>\n
It is not the first time in recent months that Trump has suggested Omar should be removed from the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, I met the head of Somalia, did you know that?\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I suggested that maybe he\u2019d like to take her back,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe said, \u2018I don\u2019t want her.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The exchange echoed comments Trump made during his first term, when he accused Omar and other members of the so-called \u201cSquad\u201d of \u201ctelling us how to run our country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Omar has often been one of Trump\u2019s most frequent critics, accusing him of using race and religion as political weapons.<\/p>\n
Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest remarks.<\/p>\n
Speaking Friday on \u201cThe Dean Obeidallah Show,\u201d Omar<\/p>\n
dismissed talk of deportation or citizenship challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no worry,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how they\u2019d take away my citizenship and, like, deport me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don\u2019t even know why that\u2019s such a scary threat,\u201d Omar added. \u201cI\u2019m not the 8-year-old who escaped war anymore. I\u2019m grown, my kids are grown. I could go live wherever I want if I wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a weird thing to wake up every single day to bring that into every single conversation \u2014 \u2018we\u2019re gonna deport Ilhan,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Omar faced new calls for her removal from office and even the revocation of her U.S. citizenship last month after she reposted a video online that accused Kirk of denying \u201cthe genocide happening in Palestine\u201d and spreading \u201cracist dog whistles.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a separate interview with broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, she described herself as \u201cmortified\u201d by Kirk\u2019s murder and expressed empathy for his wife and two children, but also criticized his positions on race relations and gun rights, particularly in the aftermath of George Floyd\u2019s death in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Her remarks drew immediate\u00a0backlash\u00a0from Republicans, who accused Omar of downplaying the tragedy and fueling political division. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), whose office is near Omar\u2019s on Capitol Hill, introduced a resolution to censure her and remove her from House committees. That motion failed by a single vote, 214\u2013213, after four Republicans joined Democrats to table it.<\/p>\n
Mace has since gone further, suggesting Omar\u2019s U.S. citizenship should be revoked. \u201cWe would love to see you deported back to Somalia next,\u201d Mace wrote in a social media post. Others online echoed similar calls, citing longstanding allegations that Omar committed immigration and marriage fraud.<\/p>\n
Adding to the controversy is renewed attention to Omar\u2019s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed. Somali-language obituaries described him as a senior officer in the regime of dictator Siad Barre, which ruled Somalia for decades and carried out atrocities against rival ethnic groups.<\/p>\n
Fact-checking organizations like Snopes and Politifact disputed those claims in 2019, describing Nur as a \u201cteacher trainer.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory in the New York City mayoral election\u2014making him the city\u2019s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor-elect\u2014Republican leaders in Washington, D.C., signaled plans to try to block him from taking office.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump has accused the 34-year-old Ugandan-born politician of being a communist, after previously warning that he would withhold federal funding from New York City if Mamdani won. Mamdani secured his win last week with a decisive margin, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo by nearly 10 percentage points, though Mamdani barely won a majority of votes overall.<\/p>\n
But some Republican lawmakers have vowed to block him from taking office. Some Republican lawmakers have demanded investigations into Mamdani\u2019s naturalisation process, calling for him to be stripped of his US citizenship and deported. They have accused him of involvement in communist and \u201cterrorist\u201d activities and figures linked to terrorism.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Mamdani lied on his naturalisation documents, he doesn\u2019t get to be a citizen, and he certainly doesn\u2019t get to run for mayor of New York City. A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,\u201d Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said in an October 29 news release, after asking US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the mayor-elect, the Economic Times reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe American naturalization system REQUIRES any alignments with communism or terrorist activities to be disclosed. I\u2019m doubtful he disclosed them. If the information is confirmed, put him on the first flight back to Uganda,\u201d Ogles added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a campaign finance watchdog has filed two criminal referrals against Mamdani, accusing the leftist socialist of taking illicit donations from overseas contributors.<\/p>\n
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation sent the recommendations to the Department of Justice\u2019s Criminal Division and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office last week. They say that Mamdani may have broken the Federal Election Campaign Act and the New York Election Code.<\/p>\n
The recommendations were made after the New York Post reported earlier this month that Mamdani\u2019s campaign got about $13,000 in donations from at least 170 people who live outside the US, including one from his mother-in-law in Dubai.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are not isolated incidents or clerical errors,\u201d Dan Backer, a national campaign finance expert and president of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race which is a clear violation of both federal law and New York City campaign finance rules,\u201d Backer added. \u201cMamdani\u2019s campaign was on notice for months that it was accepting illegal foreign contributions, and yet it did nothing meaningful to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation has previously filed complaints against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign, and the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n
The watchdog told Bragg and the DOJ to look into and arrest Mamdani for the campaign cash that may have come from Australia, Turkey, France, Canada, Germany, and other countries.<\/p>\n
The group said that Mamdani\u2019s campaign had shown a \u201csystematic failure to comply\u201d with the rules about campaign money.<\/p>\n
The Federal Election Campaign Act says that it is against the law to \u201caccept or receive\u201d donations from people who are not US citizens in any federal, state, or local election.<\/p>\n
People who knowingly accept donations from other countries could face big fines and jail time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe law is crystal clear that foreign nationals may not participate in American elections, and that includes making contributions,\u201d Backer continued. \u201cYet Mamdani\u2019s campaign repeatedly accepted donations from individuals abroad, some even tied to regions and individuals openly sympathetic to hostile actors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether through negligence or intent, this conduct undermines the integrity of the democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s campaign for mayor of New York City sent back about $9,000 in donations from people outside the U.S., the Post reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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