{"id":886390,"date":"2026-01-19T18:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/watch-minnesota-democrat-lt-gov-wears-muslim-garment-while-pledging-support-for-somalian-migrants\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:43:24","slug":"watch-minnesota-democrat-lt-gov-wears-muslim-garment-while-pledging-support-for-somalian-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/watch-minnesota-democrat-lt-gov-wears-muslim-garment-while-pledging-support-for-somalian-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Minnesota Democrat Lt. Gov. Wears Muslim Garment While Pledging Support for Somalian Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WATCH: Minnesota Democrat Lt. Gov. Wears Muslim Garment While Pledging Support for Somalian Migrants<\/h2>\n
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Leftist Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan recently appeared wearing an Islamic garment on a Somali-language YouTube channel out of Minneapolis to tell Somali migrants that she\u2019s \u201cgot your back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flanagan was chosen by Democrat Gov. Tim Walz as his running mate in 2018. She is not a Muslim; she is instead a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) native Americans and has won election as Walz\u2019s running mate in two elections.<\/p>\n

With President Donald Trump\u2019s administration focusing<\/a> on the massive fraud and welfare funding theft by Somali migrants in the Gopher State, Flanagan apparently wanted to reassure Somali migrants that she and Walz are working for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cSalam Alaikum. My name\u2019s Peggy Flanagan. I am the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, and I\u2019m really honored and humbled to be here with all of you today,\u201d Flanagan said, wearing a Muslim garment covering her body from her hair on down. \u201cI am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about my friendship with Nimco. We\u2019ve been friends for almost 25 years and when I think of being part of Minnesota and growing up here, the Somali community has always been a part of my Minnesota,\u201d the 46-year-old Flannagan said, pushing a false claim \u2014 Somalis did not first start coming to Minnesota until the 1990s. Flanagan was already in her teens when that began.<\/p>\n

Flanagan went on:<\/p>\n

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So I want to just encourage the community to know that we\u2019re with you, we\u2019ve got your back. I am here shopping today and just encourage other folks to show up, support our Somali businesses, support our immigrant neighbors and I know that things are scary right now, and just know that there are more people who are looking out for you, there are more people who are here to support you than you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI will continue to stand with the Somali community, to be with you, and to do all I can to return the friendship and community that the Somali community has shown me,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

The Lt. governor was standing next to a controversial individual in the video. To her right stood Ali Gaashaan, who is also known as Yusuf Ali. He is the founder of Volunteers for Somalia, a non-profit that was involved in the Feeding Our Future criminal case. Once Feeding Our Future \u2014 a charity prosecuted for $250 million in fraud \u2014 was shuttered, Ali Gashaan abruptly ended his own charity, which was supposedly geared toward feeding needy Somali migrant children.<\/p>\n

Flanagan is controversial herself. Even in her own biography she admitted that she only earned a 1.75 GPA in high school. She claimed that she finally blossomed as a student in college when she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Minnesota in child psychology and American Indian studies with a specialty in Ojibwe history.<\/p>\n

Flanagan has also been vocal about kicking federal immigration officials out of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: Facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, Truth Social @WarnerToddHuston<\/a>, or at X\/Twitter @WTHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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