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President Donald Trump on Monday said the Justice Department is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, writing: “the DOJ and Congress are looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all.”

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The charge is Living While Democrat.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

You mean Democrat and of Somali origin?! Basically Drumpf's nightmare no?

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They are going to investigate every single democrat and blow up every blue city before we ever hear anything about Jeffery Epstein again.

[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

They will try to but we ain't having any of this. Get more people active and keep doing too! Force multiplier with more of us doing

[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars.

Meanwhile, a white immigrant does that, and they're hailed as a hero by capitalists.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Right? They've lost the ability to pretend not to be overtly racist 24/7.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Meanwhile, Taco himself has grifted an estimated 1.4 BILLION dollars during his second "presidency".

But I guess it's okay cuz he's a white Republican.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Reminder that this shitbag grifted 1.4 BILLION in his first year and not a fucking peep about investigating HIM.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Oh, I see you beat me to it.

Came here to say this. The reason he's not being investigated over it and will likely never have any punishment at all: IOKIYAR.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Just copying what I commented awhile ago about Ilhan Omar's networth.

Based on what I could find a majority of that networth comes from her husband's businesses, a winery and a venture capital firm. And the jump seems to be related to lawsuits being settled which previously decreased the value of those businesses.

That being said there are plenty of criticisms to made for both Republican and Democratic members of Congress's ever increasing networth and shady stock trades.

[–] bearoftheisle@europe.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

Or they'll find things that literally every other member of congress is guilty of (like shady stock trades) and punish only the brown-skinned woman.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

But not the fact the chuds with two weeks training are wreaking havoc in blue cities because of a small dicked fascist dotard 's commands...