Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a really particular class: black, Muslim, and a refugee from Somalia. It’s a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, at all times touted as black, lesbian, and Haitian. By no means query their prominence on the deserves. It’s a born-on-third-base scenario in nationwide politics and media.
So when Omar submits herself to tv interviews from liberal networks, she is aware of she will be able to say inflammatory issues and never be significantly challenged. On CBS’s Face the Nation, the subject was Renee Good being shot after she drove into an ICE agent along with her SUV. Omar claimed Good was “sitting in her automotive peacefully,” after which the ICE agent “should not be making an attempt to get in entrance of a shifting automotive.” Good was proper whether or not she was in Park or in Drive. On prime of that, Workforce Trump shouldn’t defend the ICE agent, as a result of “we are able to see within the movies which have been produced to this point that what they’re describing is admittedly not what’s happening.”
That is partaking in denialism. It’s apparent from the ICE agent’s video that he was struck by Good’s automotive. CBS host Margaret Brennan didn’t problem Omar on that, or the rest in regards to the incident. She solely pushed again by vaguely stipulating there was violence in opposition to ICE brokers. This agent was beforehand run over by a automotive in his official capability. That’s not related once you’ve determined that in each occasion, ICE and Trump are the villains.
That wasn’t as outrageous as Omar’s look in a while MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime. Over half an hour, all of the questions have been designed to elicit her speaking factors. Co-host Antonia Hylton requested: “Within the wake of somebody being shot and killed. Are you apprehensive that extra of your constituents’ lives might be in danger? Are you apprehensive in any respect as they pull out their cell telephones, as they work together with these officers, that that may simply frankly, not be secure?”
Omar got here on to interrupt out the conspiracy theories: “What this administration is searching for is for there to be lethal encounters in order that they will invoke the Rebel Act and have martial legislation. And it’s a harmful, harmful escalation that they are searching for.”
MS NOW airs Ilhan Omar’s conspiracy principle on the Minnesota ICE surge: “What this administration is searching for is for there to be lethal encounters in order that they will invoke the Rebel Act and have martial legislation.” pic.twitter.com/OTRHUjCMRM
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 14, 2026
Nevertheless it’s the second section of this interview that shocked the conservative world, after they requested Omar about preventing welfare fraud, as if Omar isn’t linked to Somalis who benefited from fraud schemes, together with workers of her campaigns.
MS NOW star Ayman Mohyeldin disparaged “conservative YouTuber” Nick Shirley and complained “now we have politicians making choices primarily based off of conspiracy theories. I am simply questioning what you make of that and the way harmful that’s, that our flesh pressers are falling for this.”
Omar lamented that anybody would fall for the concept that “Democrats condone this fraud,” and steered all of the fraud prosecutions occurred below the Biden administration. That’s not true. However Omar was on a roll, attacking Workforce Trump: “I am so exhausted in making an attempt to ask what any of this, you recognize, info has led to you discovering any criminals that you’ve got indicted, that explains why you’re losing a lot of our taxpayer assets.”
Ilhan Omar is part of a Somali fraud scheme that robbed $9 billion from American taxpayers.
Omar occurring TV to argue that investigating that fraud is “losing our taxpayer assets” is a degree of brazen shamelessness I don’t assume I’ve seen in politics. https://t.co/NY1pnzBgs3
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) January 12, 2026
U.S. attorneys below Biden achieved about 60 fraud convictions, lots of them Somalis, and that effort continues below Trump. That’s not “losing” taxpayer {dollars}. It’s making an attempt to punish individuals who stole cash from social packages.
Shameless Ilhan Omar doesn’t have to fret about journalists bothering her with difficult questions on her conspiracy theories or her connections to fraudsters, or her booming web value and if that was ethically gained. “Range, fairness, and inclusion” objectives translate to media coddling, sharpening, and defusing.
