JD Vance accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of having “definitely committed immigration fraud” and said that he’d recently spoken with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller about how best to “go after her.”

Speaking on a podcast hosted by MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Friday, Vance was asked about claims that Omar had defrauded the United States by marrying her brother to secure his legal residency.

The unsubstantiated claim has circulated in MAGA circles for years but has been denied by Omar multiple times. The congresswoman was born in Somalia but moved to Minneapolis with her family in 1997, fleeing the civil war.

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    I’m thinking their plan is just to say the most outlandish items to get in the headlines. Then when they actial do something, it’s horrible but not as horrible as what they have said. It’s time to ignore everything coming out of Trump, Vance, Miller, Musk, & everyone else connected to this administration.

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    Hey Vance why don’t you go check up on your mom I hear she is snoring Ajax cleaner off an old couch cushion.

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    JD Vance has a law degree from Yale. He knows better. I remember when politicians didn’t direct the DOJ to go after their opponents with bogus claims of wrongdoing.

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      The DOJ doesn’t answer to Vance unless Trump is gone though… Unless Trump is going to claim the VP has authorities not defined by his role, which I really doubt the Republican party wants to give more power to those positions right now seeing how sketchy everything looks for their future.

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      Every authoritarian fascist gov’t leader does it. He’s just running the playbook.

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    definitely committed immigration fraud

    Gaslight

    how best to ‘go after her’

    Obstruct

    I’m not certain of it, but we at least need to investigate it because if people can commit wrongdoing without even the fear that they’re going to be found out, that’s a fundamental problem.

    Project

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    J. D. Vance and Trump are the kind of people that simply don’t deserve to be part of a society, because all they do is evil and selfish.
    They should be expelled to live in some remote uninhabited region, and never be allowed back to civilization.
    But since we don’t have that practice, they are also the kind of people that actually deserve the death penalty, because they have caused mass death of innocent people, contrary to many that have actually received a death penalty.
    These people are so despicable that they are no better than serial killers, yet at election day half the voters supported getting such an administration. And still more than a third support them, and the only reason it has declined is because of oil prices going up. All the sociopathic shit they do is OK!