Benny Johnson says the Omar investigation is “confirmed” by five officials and posts “Send her back”
Benny JohnsonHost of The Benny Johnson Show, posting on X
In an X post with a video of Rep. Ilhan Omar being questioned, Benny Johnson wrote that she “melted down, denied there was an active investigation and ran away into an elevator,” that “it’s been confirmed by” Vice President JD Vance, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Attorney General Todd Blanche, border czar Tom Homan and Stephen Miller, and “Send her back.” The attached video is a Benny Johnson Show cut that includes LindellTV’s footage of Omar being questioned, Johnson’s commentary, in which he says she has been “credibly accused” of marrying her brother, and a clip of Mullin. Johnson’s description of the video and of who has confirmed what is his own.
“Ilhan Omar SNAPPED at Reporter Asking Her If She’s About to Get DEPORTED” … “The Congresswoman melted down, denied there was an active investigation and ran away into an elevator.” … “It’s been confirmed by: -VP JD Vance -DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin -AG Todd Blanche -Border Czar Tom Homan -Stephen Miller” … “Send her back.”
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Should Trump administration officials publicly accuse Rep. Ilhan Omar of immigration fraud?
Since at least 2016 there have been unproven claims that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2009 husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. Senior Trump administration officials have repeated the claim publicly. This record begins with Vice President JD Vance’s March 27, 2026 statement that “we actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud,” and includes President Donald Trump’s May 1 statement, “I believe she married her brother.” On September 10, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a podcast interview, “we know that she married her brother to try to bring him in the United States,” and that an investigation was ongoing. On September 13, border czar Tom Homan declined to give specifics of an “ongoing criminal investigation” but said “no one’s above the law.” Omar has denied the claim: on September 16 she told a reporter “Absolutely not” and that she is not under investigation, and on September 18 Fox News Digital reported her saying DHS had not contacted her. Fox reported that there has been no public evidence available to confirm an open investigation into her.
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Benny Johnson’s own post, published at 8:11 p.m. EDT on September 17, 2026, with an attached video of Rep. Ilhan Omar being questioned.
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Johnson is the host who interviewed Mullin on September 10 and Vance on March 27. The post was published on the evening of September 17, the day after LindellTV’s video of Omar denying the allegation.
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Blanche had said on September 15 that he was “not talking about ongoing criminal investigations,” and Homan had said on September 13 that he would not comment on ongoing criminal investigations. We could not locate an on-record statement by Stephen Miller confirming an investigation of Omar.
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Johnson asserts the accusation and the investigation as confirmed by named officials and calls for Omar’s removal. That defends the accusation and its pursuit. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”; it loses because the post attaches no condition.
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