Minnesota Rep.
Ilhan Omar used her social media platform this week to imply that President Donald Trump deserves execution, invoking Somali standards of punishment while smearing him as tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
According to The Post Millennial, Omar posted a clip of President Trumps recent Fox News interview on X, captioning it: "The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them." Her rhetoric, which effectively calls for capital punishment against a political opponent, underscores how far some on the progressive left are willing to go in weaponizing accusations rather than debating policy.
The Fox News segment at the center of Omars post focused not on Epstein, but on widespread fraud in Minnesotas Somali community that has been under Department of Justice scrutiny throughout the Biden administration. Dozens have already been arrested and convicted, many of Somali descent along with several non-Somali Americans, for schemes in which sham businesses were created to siphon off taxpayer-funded social services grants without delivering the promised aid.
"So you're gonna still go after the whole waste, fraud and abuse issue?" Fox host Larry Kudlow asked President Trump during the interview. "Well, I am. In Minnesota, take a look at Minnesota. So we think it's at least $19 billion of fraudmedical, every fraud. Somalia has come in here, what they've done to our country, these people, they've come into our country, and what they have done with that fake congresswoman, she's so bad. No, we're gonna get to the bottom of it," Trump replied, pointedly criticizing Omars record and the abuse of public funds.
The "fake congresswoman" remark was a clear reference to Omar, whose own background has long raised serious questions that Democrats and much of the legacy media have been reluctant to probe. Omar, who spent part of her youth in a refugee camp before entering the United States, has faced allegations that she entered into a Christian marriage with her own brotherdespite being Muslimin a move that reportedly enabled him to fraudulently obtain student loans and attend college.
Omars post further insinuated that President Trump was complicit in Epsteins sex-trafficking operations simply because his name appears in the recently released trove of documents. The DOJ disclosed roughly 3.5 million pages of material, and while Trumps name "appeared," many of those references were merely citations in news articles rather than direct communications or business dealings.
By contrast, the public record shows President Trump distancing himself from Epstein years before the financiers final arrest. Trump expelled Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club for being "creepy," as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted, and he openly commended Palm Beach law enforcement for investigating Epstein, saying "everyone" understood what Epstein was doing.
Epstein was first arrested and prosecuted in Florida for solicitation of a minor for prostitution, and later faced federal sex-trafficking charges, while his associate Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The files have implicated numerous high-profile Democrats and left-leaning figures, including UK Labour Party members and Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett, who texted with Epstein during President Trumps impeachment so he could coach her on how to question witnessesan inconvenient fact that undercuts Omars attempt to redirect suspicion toward Trump while ignoring the rot within her own political camp.
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