“Somalia has come in here, what they’ve done to our country, these people, they’ve come into our country, and what they have done with that fake congresswoman, she’s so bad. ”
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar posted on X to suggest that President Donald Trump should be executed. She shared a clip of an interview with Trump on Fox News with the caption "The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them."
In the video, Trump was asked about the rampant fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota, which has been the subject of DOJ investigations going back into the Biden administration. Dozens have been arrested and convicted, including primarily those of Somali descent and a few non-Somali Americans. The cases have seen Somalis open businesses for the express purpose of gaining government social services grants and then not providing any of the services.
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"So you're gonna still go after the whole waste, fraud and abuse issue?" Fox News' Larry Kudlow asked Trump.
"Well, I am. In Minnesota, take a look at Minnesota. So we think it's at least $19 billion of fraud—medical, every fraud. Somalia has come in here, what they've done to our country, these people, they've come into our country, and what they have done with that fake congresswoman, she's so bad. No, we're gonna get to the bottom of it," he said.
The "fake congresswoman" he's referring to is Omar. Omar lived in a refugee camp before coming to the US. Once here, she reportedly married her brother in a Christian ceremony, though she is Muslim. In Islam, Christian marriages are not believed to be legitimate. Her brother then fraudulently obtained student loans and was able to attend college.
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Omar's post suggests that Trump was party to the sex trafficking operations of disgraced, deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein because his name was in the files. The DOJ released some 3.5 million pages of documents and while Trump's name "appeared," many of those appearances were in the form of news articles and not through direct correspondence with Trump.
Trump had kicked Epstein out of his private Mar-a-Lago golf club for being "creepy," as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. Trump's animosity toward Epstein has been well-documented for years and Trump also praised local Palm Beach police for looking into Epstein, saying "everyone" knew what he was up to.
Epstein was arrested and tried in Florida for solicitation of a minor for prostitution. He was later charged for sex trafficking and his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to a 20-year prison term. Many high-profile Democrats, as well as members of the UK Labour Party, have been mentioned in the files. Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett texted back-and-forth with Epstein during Trump's impeachment term so that Epstein could give her tips on how to question witnesses.
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