Emma Vigeland calls the case against Ilhan Omar a racist, lawless vendetta
Emma VigelandCo-host of The Majority Report, on her X account
Emma Vigeland says the action against Rep. Ilhan Omar is not an investigation but a racist, lawless vendetta, and that Democrats who legitimize it are complicit in an effort to denaturalize her.
“Any Democrat using language that legitimizes Trump's persecution of Rep. Omar is complicit in his effort to denaturalize an elected official and silence her criticisms of him. It's not an "investigation." It's a racist, lawless vendetta against a Black, Muslim, immigrant woman.”
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Federal agents search Ilhan Omar's home weeks before the election; Democrats allege political targeting
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home on October 12, 2026, under a warrant the Justice Department says a judge authorized. Omar and House Democratic leaders call the search political intimidation timed before the midterm election. Trump says the matter is up to the Justice Department.
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Emma Vigeland posted this on X on October 13, 2026, the day after Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home.
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Reports the Justice Department's statement on the search, Omar's post, Trump's remarks and Tom Emmer's post. The link between the search and Omar's immigration paperwork comes from an anonymous senior administration official.
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Vigeland posted this on X on October 13, 2026, the day after Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar's home in the Washington area in what an administration official said was an investigation related to her immigration paperwork.
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Relative to the federal search of Omar's home and the case behind it, Vigeland rejects calling it an investigation and calls it a racist, lawless vendetta. That condemns the action.
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