𝐈𝐋𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐑 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐀 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐌 𝐁𝐘 𝟔𝟎 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐒 — 𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐒 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐑 Tuesday was a brutal night for Republicans almost everywhere. It wasn't brutal in Minnesota's 5th District. 𝐈𝐥𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐦𝐚𝐫 cruised to re-election over veteran state trooper John Nagel, 𝟕𝟔.𝟓% 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟔%, even as the Trump administration builds an immigration fraud case aimed at stripping her citizenship and deporting her. Since 2016, the FBI and Homeland Security have investigated whether Omar legally married one of her own siblings, 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘕𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘌𝘭𝘮𝘪, to get him a green card — while she was still filing joint tax returns with a different man, 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘪, whom she'd entered an Islamic marriage with back in 2002. Federal prosecutors have reportedly started referring to her in court filings as “𝘐𝘭𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘌𝘭𝘮𝘪” — what sources told the 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 is her real name. On October 12, Homeland Security Investigations agents took the rare step of executing a search warrant on Omar's Washington, DC home less than 30 days before the election — making a covert federal probe into a sitting congresswoman suddenly, publicly real. Investigators are also looking at whether Omar or her father lied about her birthdate to obtain citizenship in 2000, and whether she and her consultant husband understated their net worth on financial disclosures. Omar's response to the raid was to call it political targeting: ““𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥.”” Her Republican challenger ran explicitly on the district's own fraud scandals — one of her former campaign staffers already pleaded guilty to laundering money from a program meant to feed hungry kids. ““𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘵𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯,”” Nagel said after his primary win. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞-𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞. Source: New York Post