{"id":18228,"date":"2026-01-26T15:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-justice-department-is-investigating-ilhan-omar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:31:48","slug":"trump-says-justice-department-is-investigating-ilhan-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-justice-department-is-investigating-ilhan-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Justice Department is investigating Ilhan Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump on Monday said the Justice Department is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).<\/p>\n

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social<\/a>, writing: \u201cthe DOJ and Congress are looking at \u2018Congresswoman\u2019 Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is the latest attack the president has levied at Omar, and the most recent instance of the president directing an investigation into his political rivals.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously said Omar should be jailed or deported to Somalia<\/a>, where she was born, though Omar has been a U.S. citizen since 2000. He has also linked Omar to government services fraud<\/a> investigations in Minnesota, accusing her of being \u201cone of many scammers,\u201d despite no clear evidence linking her to the cases.<\/p>\n

Tensions have only grown between the two as immigration officials continue to patrol the city of Minneapolis, which Omar represents.<\/p>\n

Omar\u2019s net worth skyrocketed in the last year, and House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) recently told the New York Post<\/a> that he plans to launch an investigation into what caused the dramatic spike.<\/p>\n

According to financial disclosures filed last year<\/a>, Omar\u2019s net worth principally increased due to her spouse \u2014 and not her work with the government. She disclosed her spouse taking in anywhere between $6 million and $30 million in partnership income from a venture capital firm and a winery.<\/p>\n

Members of Congress\u2019 and their spouses\u2019 sources of income and assets are traditionally disclosed in broad ranges, not as a specific dollar amount.<\/p>\n

Omar has previously denied the allegations of anything untoward and has said Trump has a \u201ccreepy\u201d obsession<\/a> with her.<\/p>\n

Trump also announced Monday that he is sending border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis<\/a>. Residents have flooded the streets of the city this month, protesting the shootings of Renee Good, who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer<\/a> Jan. 7, and Alex Pretti, who was killed by a Border Patrol<\/a> agent Saturday.<\/p>\n

Neither the DOJ nor Omar\u2019s office immediately responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump on Monday said the Justice Department is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, writing: \u201cthe DOJ and Congress are looking at \u2018Congresswoman\u2019 Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all.\u201d It is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}