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A Tale of Two Raids
By Robert Knight
The U.S. Justice Department finally got around to gathering evidence of possible immigration skullduggery involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Democrat and Somalian immigrant. And maybe much more.
In a predawn raid on Oct. 12, FBI officials removed boxes of documents from her Washington, D.C. home after obtaining a warrant from a Democrat federal judge.
This sounds familiar, without the leg irons. More on that, later.
We were told initially that this raid wasn’t about Ms. Omar allegedly marrying her brother so he could legally enter the U.S. from Great Britain in 2009.
Or the tangle of scandals around the massive welfare fraud in her Minneapolis district that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Or about her amended financial disclosure form in April showing a joint income with her current husband, Tim Mynett, of between $18,000 and $95,000.
This was a drop from the 2025 disclosure of their worth as between $6 million to $30 million, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported. A House committee is investigating the discrepancy.
Ms. Omar’s staff has blamed it on “an accounting error,” saying “the congresswoman is not a millionaire.”
Investigators are also probing her immigration status and family identification when she was brought here as a 12-year-old in 1995 by her legally recognized father, Nur Omar Mohamed.
He served as a colonel in the Somali National Army under Marxist dictator Siad Barre.
Questions remain about when Ilhan Omar was naturalized and whether she changed dates on official forms, which would constitute fraud.
Anyway, the outrage and collective amnesia over the document seizures in Minneapolis were predictable.
“Stunning raid on Ilhan Omar’s home smacks of intimidation, experts say,” was the headline on The Fix column by Amber Philips in The Washington Post on Oct. 14.
The “experts” in the piece are shocked, shocked that anyone would engage in politically motivated investigations, especially so soon before an election.
They have half a point. This should have been done years ago.
Citing Trump administration cases against former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Ms. Phillips says, “many legal experts say those repeated investigations and indictments of a president’s perceived foes are an affront to the rule of law.”
On cue, prominent affronted Democrats cried crocodile tears. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Washington state Democrat and former co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, for which Ms. Omar is deputy chair, called the raid “a dangerous sign” of an authoritarian president, according to The Federalist.
House Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar issued a joint statement calling it “deeply disturbing” and evidence of “corrupt weaponization” of the government.
By contrast, when the FBI raided President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Aug. 8, 2022, in a vain search for illegally kept classified materials, Democrats cheered. Mr. Jeffries and others said, “No one is above the law,” and Ms. Jayapal said, “Trump should be in jail.”
Here’s the August 8, 2022, headline from the Washington Post:
“FBI searches Trump safe at Mar-a-Lago for possible classified documents: Search was court-authorized and related to long-running investigation, person familiar with the probe said.”
Oh, guess it’s okay, then.
More from that piece: “Trump said the raid was ‘unannounced’ and claimed it was not ‘necessary or appropriate.’ The former president, without evidence, accused Democrats of weaponizing the ‘justice system’ against him.” Without evidence?
A former president who saw top aides targeted by pre-dawn raids and was facing four politically motivated felony cases against him in four jurisdictions probably didn’t need any more evidence that Democrats were weaponizing the system.
One of the aides, trade adviser Peter Navarro, was put in leg irons, handcuffed, and strip searched. He and another aide, Steve Bannon, later served prison time for refusing to reveal confidential White House conversations.
Now, we’ve learned that special counsel Jack Smith was even gathering information on more than 630,000 of Mr. Trump’s supporters, including those who bought red MAGA hats, according to Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan.
Back to the poor, victimized Ms. Omar. The account of her marriage to her brother has been heavily documented by Scott Johnson, beginning in 2016 when he was writing for the Power Line blog.
In a Washington Free Beacon article entitled, “Yes, Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother,” Mr. Johnson cites copious evidence.
The Dec. 12, 2025 Free Beacon piece includes a photo of the marriage license from Feb. 12, 2009, and it notes that the Minnesota Star Tribune followed up in 2016 but was stonewalled by Ms. Omar’s staff and accused of bigotry.
In 2019, the Star Tribune revisited the issue in a 3,000-word piece that Johnson said, “proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Omar married her brother for some fraudulent purpose.”
For years, Ms. Omar has denied any responsibility for the multi-billion-dollar welfare fraud centered in her Minneapolis district, largely among her fellow Somalians.
In 2020, she introduced the MEALS Act in 2020 that weakened federal rules regarding food aid. This unleashed the Feeding Our Future nutrition fraud scheme in Minnesota that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
I can’t help but think that this kind of massive criminality went largely unexamined by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz because it benefited his Democratic Party.
It went on for years also because anyone asking questions was accused of racism and Islamophobia.
The America-and Israel-hating Ms. Omar is particularly skilled in this tactic.
Ilhan Omar at a Washington press conference on Jan. 13, 2026. AP photo in The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.