{"id":883183,"date":"2026-01-07T05:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/trump-insists-ilhan-omar-is-part-of-minnesota-fraud-in-racist-rant\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:23:40","slug":"trump-insists-ilhan-omar-is-part-of-minnesota-fraud-in-racist-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/trump-insists-ilhan-omar-is-part-of-minnesota-fraud-in-racist-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Insists Ilhan Omar Is Part of Minnesota Fraud in Racist Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The president is thrusting some of the blame for Minnesota\u2019s day care scandal onto Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar.<\/span><\/p>\n

State officials have come under fire since right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley reported Friday that empty or abandoned day care facilities were still receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Department of Health and Human Services <\/span>paused $185 million<\/a> in aid to the state in light of the video, despite the fact that elements of Shirley\u2019s report were incorrect or inadequately reported. At least two of the centers featured in Shirley\u2019s video had been closed for several years, Minnesota\u2019s Department of Children, Youth and Families told <\/span>NewsNation<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

But the nitty gritty of the situation didn\u2019t matter to Donald Trump, who baselessly asserted on <\/span>Truth Social<\/a> Wednesday that Omar was one of the scammers sucking up undue funds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90 percent, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia,\u201d Trump posted. \u201c\u2018Congresswoman\u2019 Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than a dozen schemes have popped up in Minnesota\u2019s safety net programs in recent years, many of them involving members of the state\u2019s Somali population. They haven\u2019t gone unchecked: More than 90 Minnesotans were charged in federal fraud investigations that began under the Biden administration, at least 60 of which have resulted in convictions. <\/span><\/p>\n

But Omar, the first Somali American lawmaker and one of the first Muslim women in Congress, doesn\u2019t have any connection to the fraudsters beyond her heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, it was clear that Trump was singularly interested in attacking Omar\u2019s ethnicity, dredging up an old right-wing conspiracy that the lawmaker had married her brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cDid she really marry her brother?\u201d Trump asked rhetorically in his post. \u201cLowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country\u2019s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

MAGA conservatives have rumbled for years\u2014without evidence\u2014that Omar married her brother to bring him into the U.S. The conspiracy first emerged during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota state legislature in a since-deleted post on the conservative blog Power Line, where an anonymous source was quoted as saying that Omar\u2019s ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was related to her by blood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Omar has vehemently and repeatedly denied the unfounded allegations, which have been disproven by her marriage certificate. At the time, Omar <\/span>described<\/a> the insinuation that she had married her brother as \u201cabsurd and offensive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Donald Trump has vetoed a bill that would expand the territory of a small Native American tribe in the Everglades because they didn\u2019t support his \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d plans. <\/p>\n

\u201cDespite seeking funding and special treatment from the Federal Government, the Miccosukee Tribe has actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected. My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding projects for special interests, especially those that are unaligned with my Administration\u2019s policy of removing violent criminal illegal aliens from the country,\u201d Trump <\/span>wrote<\/a> in a message to Congress Tuesday night. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is not the Federal Government\u2019s responsibility to pay to fix problems in an area that the Tribe has never been authorized to occupy. For these reasons, I cannot support the Miccosukee Reserved Amendments Act.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The Miccosukee Tribe was part of a lawsuit along with two environmental groups\u2014Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity\u2014that argued that the Trump administration and Florida state government hadn\u2019t carried out the required environmental review for the construction of the detention center deep in the cherished Southern Florida wetlands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now Trump is denying their effort to regain just a portion of the land that was taken from them in the First and Second Seminole Wars of the nineteenth century. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Miccosukee weren\u2019t the only ones hit with a spiteful veto from a most spiteful president. In Colorado, Trump shot down a massive clean water project that was years in the making because MAGA Representative <\/span>Lauren Boebert refused to cave<\/a> to his pressure to stay mum on the Epstein files. She voted for their release, and now 39 communities may have to go back to the drawing board for their clean water. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Border Patrol has been arresting U.S. citizens, according to the agency\u2019s leader.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino told <\/span>Fox News<\/a> Tuesday that his underlings had in fact arrested American citizens, claiming that they had cuffed U.S. nationals for assaulting border patrol agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAs far as American citizens, the vast majority of American citizens, especially that the U.S. Border patrol has arrested, many of those citizens assaulted federal officers, assaulted border patrol agents, in the performance of our duties,\u201d Bovino said. \u201cAnyone that assaults a federal officer, you\u2019re gonna go to jail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Homeland Security Department released a <\/span>memo<\/a> in November claiming that assaults on DHS agents had risen by 1,150 percent since 2024. They blamed the supposed rise on the rhetoric of sanctuary city politicians, alleging that political opposition to the Trump administration\u2019s immigration agenda\u2014such as condemning ICE and Border Patrol agents as \u201cNazis\u201d and \u201cslave patrols\u201d\u2014had inspired the unprecedented violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur law enforcement officers have had Molotov cocktails and rocks thrown at them, been shot at, had cars used as weapons against them, and been physically assaulted,\u201d Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in the memo.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, the tactics utilized by ICE agents to arrest and detain the undocumented population have been nothing short of appalling. ICE agents have violently ripped families apart, beaten suspects, and even detained elected officials attempting to <\/span>visit their facilities<\/a> or <\/span>escort immigrants<\/a> to and from scheduled immigration court dates.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the agents have also masked their faces and intentionally tried to hide their identities, making the government officials practically indiscernible from violent laypeople as they invade homes, hijack cars, or assault people on the street. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bovino himself is no stranger to violent behavior. In late November, the Border Patrol chief was <\/span>slammed<\/a> by a U.S. district judge after he semantically dodged questions related to his and his agents\u2019 excessive use of force against protesters in Chicago. At the time, Bovino split hairs about how many canisters of tear gas he threw into a crowd as well as other alleged misconduct by officers under his command during \u201cOperation Midway Blitz.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Colorado MAGA Representative Lauren Boebert is claiming that President Donald Trump killed a massive clean water project in her district as punishment for her voting to release the Epstein files, even after Trump pressed her not to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Arkansas Valley Conduit was a project decades in the making that was supposed to grant safe drinking water to 39 communities across the region, and received bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress. Trump ended all of that on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMy Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies,\u201d he <\/span>said<\/a> in a statement justifying his veto of the bill. \u201cEnding the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Boebert was incensed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump decided to veto a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Why? Because nothing says \u2018America First\u2019 like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado, many of whom enthusiastically voted for him in all three elections,\u201d she <\/span>wrote<\/a> in a statement. \u201cI thought the campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape. But hey, if this administration wants to make its legacy blocking projects that deliver water to rural Americans; that\u2019s on them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability. Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics,\u201d she continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Boebert is clearly alluding to Trump\u2019s aforementioned phone call to demand that she <\/span>remove her name<\/a> from the petition to release the Epstein files. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Boebert also argued that the veto would have been reasonable if it targeted more liberal voters in Colorado, but not people in her region who \u201coverwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the last three elections.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThese are not the people that should be attacked,\u201d she <\/span>said<\/a> in a video message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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GOP Rep Lauren Boebert is OK with Trump punishing Colorado over immigration, climate research, or Tina Peters. Just not her district’s project.<\/p>\n

“These are people who overwhelmingly voted for President Trump,” Boebert told me. “These are not the people who should be attacked” https:\/\/t.co\/R9oMXi7WRo<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/iql0uYC3k4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The bill\u2019s unanimous passage\u2014and the bipartisan disapproval around its veto\u2014suggest that this fight may not be over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Three years after Virginia Giuffre left her job as Mar-a-Lago\u2019s pool attendant to \u201cwork\u201d for Jeffrey Epstein, another employee at the club spa issued an allegation that hampered the prodigious sex trafficker\u2019s access to Donald Trump\u2019s Palm Beach resort.<\/span><\/p>\n

Epstein wasn\u2019t actually a member, but Trump told his employees to treat him like one. The financier was a frequent client at the club\u2019s spa, where his appointments were arranged by Ghislaine Maxwell, so much so that he was allowed house calls at his neighboring estate by the spa\u2019s masseuses, according to new reporting by <\/span>The Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That privilege came to a jarring end in 2003, when an 18-year-old beautician returned from one of the house visits complaining that Epstein had attempted to pressure her into sex.<\/span><\/p>\n

Managers at the club spa then wrote a letter to Trump, urging him to ban Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. The letter was well received, and Trump told the spa management to \u201ckick him out,\u201d according to the Journal.<\/i><\/p>\n

Prior to his death, pedophilic sex trafficker Epstein described himself as one of Trump\u2019s \u201cclosest friends<\/a>.\u201d The socialites were named and photographed<\/a> together on several occasions and were caught partying with underaged girls in New Jersey casinos. Epstein was invited to Trump\u2019s wedding to Marla Maples in 1993, and in 2002, Trump told New York Magazine<\/i> that Epstein was a \u201cterrific guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The same year that the beautician accused Epstein of coercing her, Trump participated in a 50th birthday book for Epstein, <\/span>penning a letter<\/a> in which he referred to the disgraced financier as his \u201cpal\u201d and waxed poetic about their shared \u201csecret.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump shocked the country in July when he <\/span>admitted<\/a> that he had thrown Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago when he became aware that Epstein was abducting the resort\u2019s underage female employees, and that Trump knew Giuffre\u2014one of Epstein\u2019s most prominent accusers\u2014was one of the \u201cstolen\u201d girls.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it appears Trump\u2019s \u201ckick him out\u201d directive only referred to the spa, as Epstein wasn\u2019t formally banned from Mar-a-Lago until October 2007, after he reportedly acted inappropriately toward a club member\u2019s daughter. That same month, Epstein\u2019s account was listed as \u201c<\/span>closed<\/a>\u201d in Mar-a-Lago\u2019s books.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Even still, a nixed membership did not mean that Epstein was totally absent from the club. Also in October 2007, an article from <\/span>The New York Post<\/i><\/a> reported that Epstein denied the Mar-a-Lago ban, claiming that he had been invited to an event that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Democrats have won big in Iowa, as they\u2019ll send Renee Hardman<\/a> to the state Senate with 71.5 percent of the vote, a whopping 27 points more than Kamala Harris won in the state by last year. <\/p>\n

Hardman\u2019s Tuesday night win also prevents Republicans from gaining a supermajority in the chamber. Hardman is the first Black woman elected to the Iowa state Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Democratic victory that large in a red state mirrors recent historic results elsewhere, and may indicate that voters may be fatigued or are just outright rejecting anything to do with President Donald Trump. Those results include Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill\u2019s gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey. But a victory in a small, downballot race such as Hardman\u2019s shows that disapproval of Trump and his administration may be hitting closer to home as the government fails to end endless wars and make the country more affordable. <\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Democrats also won big in Erie County, Pennsylvania, which <\/span>narrowly supported<\/a> Trump in the 2024 election, and defeated a 36-year Republican incumbent in Virginia\u2019s 66th state House district. Democrats in Georgia managed to win two statewide races for <\/span>public service commissioner,<\/a> their first nonfederal statewide wins since 2006. <\/span><\/p>\n

And even in the deep Southern state of Mississippi, Democrats were able to break the <\/span>supermajority<\/a> in the state Senate by flipping three seats after 13 years, taking away Republicans\u2019 ability to override the governor\u2019s veto and easily propose constitutional amendments.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All that is to say that these results should have Trump very worried about how negatively Americans are feeling about his second term, even those who voted for him in 2024. If this holds, it could be a major issue for the GOP come 2026 midterms. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Detritus from one of the Caribbean boat strikes has washed up on the Colombian peninsula, and it\u2019s not what the White House claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The boats apparently wrecked in a November 6 strike arrived on Colombia\u2019s Indigenous-governed Guajira Peninsula two days later with two mangled bodies and torched jerrycans. But at least one of the vessels also carried evidence of the drugs it was smuggling onboard, reported <\/span>The New York Times<\/i><\/a>: emptied packets of marijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration has justified its unfettered air strike campaign on the basis that small watercraft in the Caribbean were funnelling fentanyl into the U.S. To further <\/span>legitimize the militaristic response<\/a>\u2014which so far has killed at least 107 people since early September\u2014the president purported that the boats were run by \u201c<\/span>narcoterrorists<\/a>\u201d from Venezuela, and designated fentanyl as a \u201cweapon of mass destruction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But marijuana, a drug synonymous with the \u201cpeace and love\u201d movement of the 1960s, is about as far from a tool of war as you can get. The substance is already legal in the vast majority of the U.S.: 40 states permit its use for medicinal purposes, while 24 states allow residents to get high for any reason whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Trump himself signed an executive order to expedite the process of reclassifying weed from a Schedule I drug\u2014which are considered to have high abuse rates with little to no medical application\u2014to a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Overall, there seems to be little evidence that the boats have been headed toward the United States. In a <\/span>classified meeting<\/a> with U.S. lawmakers two weeks ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and State Secretary Marco Rubio revealed that the Trump administration was aware the boats were bound for Europe rather than America. They also disclosed that the administration had no intelligence indicating that fentanyl was coming out of Venezuela, but rather that some of the boats were believed to be carrying cocaine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Paul Ingrassia, the failed Trump nominee with a self-described \u201cNazi streak,\u201d has been making enemies at the General Services Administration\u2014where he crash landed after even Senate Republicans rejected his bid to head the Office of Special Counsel due to his leaked countless racist, bigoted messages. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what he is or is not, but no one cares for him,\u201d one anonymous GSA staffer told <\/span>Politico<\/a> in a story published Tuesday, adding that Ingrassia hasn\u2019t been given anything \u201cmeaningful\u201d to do because \u201c[GSA] leadership doesn\u2019t really want him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat are we? A halfway house for bigots who can\u2019t find jobs anywhere else in this administration?\u201d another staffer said, going on to mention how incredibly unqualified Ingrassia was compared to his predecessor, Russell \u201cRusty\u201d McGranahan. \u201cRusty was well qualified and served the administration well. I just want the government to be staffed with experienced people who are taken seriously.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump administration, however, seems to think Ingrassia is just the man for the job. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPaul Ingrassia is a well-regarded attorney who has provided outstanding service to President Trump and will continue to do so as GSA\u2019s acting general counsel,\u201d GSA spokesperson Marianne Copenhaver said. \u201cThe GSA has complete confidence in his ability to further both its mission and the president\u2019s priorities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the uninitiated: Ingrassia made headlines back in October for a series of deeply hateful statements he made in a group chat. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo moulignon holidays.\u2026 From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,\u201d he wrote in one text, using an Italian slur for Black people in the beginning of the message. \u201cEvery single one needs to be eviscerated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his \u2018holiday\u2019 should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,\u201d he said in another text. He also mentioned that he had a \u201cbit of a Nazi streak\u201d and to \u201cnever trust a chinaman or Indian. NEVER.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ingrassia was also accused of sexually harassing a coworker at the Department of Homeland Security. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is the man the Trump administration deemed to be \u201cwell-regarded\u201d\u2014although it\u2019s clear that his peers think otherwise. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles might have revealed more than she ought to about the Epstein files.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Vanity Fair<\/i> profile<\/a> on the president\u2019s famed \u201c<\/span>ice maiden<\/a>\u201d has continued to haunt the administration weeks after its publication, in large part thanks to Wiles\u2019s candid responses. Now, Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin have demanded answers regarding a particularly lurid detail that came out of the article: Wiles\u2019s apparent familiarity with the contents of the Epstein files.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a <\/span>joint letter<\/a> made public Tuesday, Whitehouse and Durbin questioned which components of the investigation she had reviewed, how she obtained the sensitive material, and \u201cunder what authority\u201d she gained access to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawmakers asked Wiles a series of questions, requesting her responses by January 5.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHad material in the file you reviewed been presented to a grand jury? When did you first gain access to \u2018the Epstein file\u2019 and what was the schedule of your review of it? For what purpose did you gain access to this information?\u201d they inquired.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The duo also questioned if she had shared any of the information with Donald Trump, and asked her to explain what role she had in \u201cany process related to the review, redaction, withholding, or release of material in the \u2018Epstein file,\u2019 including any processes involving the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The wide-ranging profile on Wiles\u2019s first year atop the Trump administration sent shockwaves through the political establishment earlier this month, and offered many Americans their first intimate glimpse into the inner machinations of Trump\u2019s White House. Over the course of \u201cmany on-the-record conversations,\u201d several of which took place after church on Sundays, documentary filmmaker and author Chris Whipple depicted a Cabinet structure that could not exist without Wiles and her unparalleled knack for translating the president\u2019s agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

But her loose lips about her Cabinet coworkers have stirred up quite a bit of trouble in the workplace. Some of those comments include claiming that Trump has \u201can alcoholic\u2019s personality,\u201d and flagging that Vice President JD Vance\u2019s shift into MAGAworld was opportunistic and \u201csort of political.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained more than a hundred people in their Chicago \u201cMidway Blitz\u201d operation in September. But as it turns out, at least half of those people were kidnapped for no reason, as their charges were dropped. Only nine arrests resulted in pending felony charges. <\/p>\n

The administration has claimed countless times that ICE agents were harassed, stalked, attacked, and abused by the various protesters\u2014many of them American citizens\u2014they detained during the Midway Blitz. But a Chicago Tribune<\/i> story published<\/a> found that these claims were flimsy at best, as was reflected in the numerous failed prosecutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some citizens claimed they were mistreated in detainment, experiencing excessive force, facing false charges, and being driven around for hours in the back of a van or SUV before eventually getting dropped off at some random location such as a gas station with their charges dropped. <\/span><\/p>\n

One man spent four days in jail before all charges against him were dropped. A Montessori school <\/span>teaching assistant<\/a> who survived several gunshots from Border Patrol agents had the felony case against her dismissed. <\/span><\/p>\n

One detainee, 27-year-old accountant Ian Sampson, told the Tribune<\/i> he was documenting a protest with his camera when he was detained for not listening to orders from agents to move back. He claimed the instructions were warbled and hard to hear. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During the protest Sampson was documenting, which took place at the ICE processing center in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, agents emerged to move the perimeter farther away from the west suburban facility. Their commands to the crowd to move back were unintelligible, several protesters allege.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden they were there, in your face,\u201d Sampson said. \u201cSo I stepped back on the grass.\u2026 I tried to move out of the way and then they just grabbed me by my backpack, pulled me down and \u2026 I had four or five guys on top of me, putting a knee in my back, smashing my head into the ground.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s apparent that the Trump administration sent militant immigration agents into one of the biggest cities in America to kidnap, beat, and abuse immigrants, citizens, or anyone expressing any kind of opposition to Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cblitz.\u201d And it was almost all for nothing. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe system isn\u2019t designed to move at a speed like a blitz,\u201d said Christopher Parente, a former federal prosecutor and current lawyer for one of the detained protesters. \u201cThe whole point of federal prosecutions, and why they win so many cases, is because they do all the work before they charge and then once they charge a case, it\u2019s rock solid. Here, they sort of flipped that on its head and they charge first, and investigate later. And I think that\u2019s why you\u2019ve seen all the problems you\u2019re seeing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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