Ilhan Omar
December 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In her interview with fangirl Esme Murphy on CBS Minnesota this past Sunday, Rep. Ilhan Omar related that her son had been pulled over by ICE in Minneapolis as a result of “racial profilng.” I doubt both the stop and the alleged racial profiling. The mantle of victimhood is handed down from genration to generation in the Omar’s family. The online CBS Minnesota story now reads this way: ICE’s Acting
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December 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
For those of you who have been following along with my long explication of the tangled tale of Ilhan Omar, please note this exchange reported in today’s New York Post story: “Why do you think they keep bringing this up?” Omar was then asked before she walked onto an elevator and out of sight. “Because they’re sick!” she exclaimed. You talkin’ to me? Well, I deny that. I’m not sick.
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December 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ilhan Omar made news over the weekend with her allegation that, in an epidemic of “racial profiling,” ICE had stopped her son (the 22-year-old Adnan Hirsi). Omar brought it up in her smoochy interview with CBS Minnesota’s Esme Murphy on Sunday (online story here). Suffice it to say that Murphy did not home in on the details. Her attitude to Omar is akin to Chris Farley’s toward Paul McCartney: “How
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December 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The White House Rapid Response account has posted the clip below from Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar’s interview with her fan Esme Murphy on CBS Minnesota yesterday. Murphy began this hard-hitting interview with her characteristic fangirl approach to Democrats, striking her usual tone with her first question: “I do want to ask first of all, how are you and what is it like being the focus of a president’s
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December 13, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the Washington Free Beacon published my column “Yes, Illhan Omar married her brother.” It is illustrated and packed with links to the work of others such as the historian Dominic Green — a member of the Royal Historical Society who has troubled himself with the relevant documents and found that they fit uncomfortably with Omar’s story as she has deigned to formulate it. He reviewed Omar’s memoir for the
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December 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the Cole Porter song, “Miss Otis Regrets” she’s unable to lunch today because she murdered her unfaithful lover and is about to be lynched. She’s sorry she has to stand up her date. By contrast, Ms. Omar regrets nothing because she married her brother and still has the fact-checkers standing by her. She’s not apologizing to anyone for anything. Rather, she’s gloating. In her memoir (written with Rebecca Paley),
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December 11, 2025 — Bill Glahn
After reviewing the evidence gathered, some of which I personally obtained, I am convinced that Ilhan Omar married her biological brother. That is, I believe that the brother-marriage story to be more likely true than false. In an effort to preserve the record, almost two years ago, I assembled a PDF document that linked to all of the extant, relevant media accounts of the marriage controversy and the Ilhan Omar
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December 9, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Now that the multi-billion-dollar frauds in Minnesota are national news, I thought it was time to revisit the document that represents the Rosetta Stone of the most prominent scandal, the one involving the food nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Estimates of this single fraud against taxpayers range from $300 million to $500 million. Federal and state investigations of this nonprofit have spun off other cases involving other government programs. So far,
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December 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Benjamin Weingarten is the author of the aptly titled American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party (foreword by Andrew McCarthy). At his Substack site, Ben has posted his research on the links among Ilhan Omar, the Feeding Our Future fraud, and the Feeding Our Future fraudsters. Ben asks: “Did Ilhan Omar Rake in More Campaign Cash From More ‘Feeding Our Future’ Scandal Fraudsters Than Has
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December 7, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From The Hill newspaper, Omar: There were ‘always those alarms’ about COVID-era Minnesota fraud scheme. Alarms? What alarms? Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) appeared on CBS Face the Nation this morning (full video here). Her evasions on the subject of Somali fraud take up the bulk of the 9-minute appearance, with the ritual Trump-bashing closing out the segment. The big news coming out of her CBS interview begins at th 8:05
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December 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
After several years of not paying attention, the worldwide media are fascinated by what has happened here in Minnesota: rampant fraud and criminality that cost taxpayers billions of dollars, while our state government was–at best!–asleep at the switch. Yesterday I was on the U.S. Report with James Morrow, on Sky News Australia. My appearance was devoted entirely to the Tim Walz scandal in its various permutations. I addressed exculpatory claims
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December 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Left-wing darling Ilhan Omar has not been indicted in any of the Walz administration frauds, but she was in the middle of at least one of them, the notorious Feeding Our Future scandal. Here, our Bill Glahn provides a short course on the Laura Ingraham show, earlier this evening: The Minnesota fraud didn’t happen in a vacuum — it happened in @IlhanMN's circle. “Ilhan Omar has close ties to the
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December 4, 2025 — Bill Glahn
The media feeding frenzy continues around the massive frauds and related stories. A roundup, Stories where I am quoted: New York Post: Minnesota Democratic lawmakers received over $50K in campaign cash from Feeding Our Future fraudsters. New York Post: What did Ilhan Omar know about the $1B welfare fraud case in her Minnesota district? UK Daily Mail: Ilhan Omar’s links to Somali food fraud scheme in Minnesota revealed. The Signal:
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December 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The second trial in the massive Feeding Our Future case paused while Judge Brasel considered one of the defendants’ effort to introduce the video below of Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar at the Safari Restaurant off Lake Street in south Minneapolis. The video was offered by Salim Said, co-owner of the restaurant which was perhaps the biggest scene of the many crimes (see this Department of Justice press release).
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November 28, 2025 — Bill Glahn
I’m just quoting Pres. Trump on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. In a lengthy social media rant (page 1, page 2) Trump covers a lot of ground on the subject of immigration, both legal and otherwise, and its drawbacks. Of Walz, Trump writes, The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both. John and Scott both discuss aspects of Trump’s post, below. The President
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November 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On Wednesday evening President Trump gave a statement on the shooting of the National Guardsmen near the White House. In his statement he took up the Minnesota fraud cases. At about 2:00 President Trump asserted that “hundreds of thousands” of Somalis are “ripping off our country and ripping apart that once great state [of Minnesota]. Billions of dollars are lost and gangs of Somalians come from a country that doesn’t
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November 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In connection with President Trump’s withdrawal of temporary protected status from Somali residents, Chris Rufo announces that he “broke the Somali fraud story” in the City Journal column I wrote about yesterday (“Thank you for your attention to this matter”). That may be a slight exaggeration verging on braggadocio, but it’s in the service of a good cause with a public purpose. In any event, Rufo has drawn the previously
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