Barack Obama's OWN FBI opened the first federal file on Ilhan Omar. Ten years later he calls the investigation appalling.
The New York Times reported it Thursday. Summer of 2016, the FBI and Homeland Security opened an immigration fraud investigation into Omar's 2009 marriage. She was running for the Minnesota House. He was in the White House.
Her campaign asked Andrew Luger, then the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, for a letter. August 22, 2016: "my office is not investigating, nor have we requested an investigation into Ms. Omar." Her campaign released it as exoneration.
Luger now tells the Times the letter "was never meant to say anything about the substance of the claims."
Nobody was charged. Prosecutors, the Times reports, concluded the potential felony fell outside a five-year statute of limitations.
Omar's office says she "has repeatedly and unequivocally denied this baseless, disgusting conspiracy theory." Agents searched her Washington home October 12. She has not been charged.
Obama, October 18: "The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president."
The first time the federal government looked at Ilhan Omar, he was running it.
You do not get to be appalled by a file your own people opened. 💎