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JUST IN: Trump Calls For Ilhan Omar’s Removal From Congress
President Donald Trump on Thursday officially joined the chorus of Republican lawmakers who have been calling for U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to be expelled from Congress over a recent interview in which she appeared to defend the murder of Charlie Kirk, among other things.
The controversy largely stems from an interview Omar sat for with Mehdi Hasan, a far-left commentator who previously hosted a primetime show on MSNBC, in which she portrayed Kirk as a radical who brought on the assassination himself.
“But what I do know for sure is that Charlie Kirk was someone who once said, ‘Guns save lives’ after a school shooting,” Omar said. “Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police … downplay slavery and what Black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth should never exist,” she added, blatantly taking Kirk’s words out of context.
Omar then disagreed with commentators who framed Kirk as “just wanting to have a civil debate,” prompting Hasan to call their characterization a “complete rewriting of history.”
“Yeah,” Omar responded. “There is nothing more effed up than to completely pretend that his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.”
Despite her comments, as well as a recent speaking event in which she doubled down on them, four House Republicans voted to table a motion to censure Omar and strip her of her committee assignments. The move has sparked fury among the Republican base, though President Trump is now calling on the House GOP caucus to take things a step further.
“I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One Thursday. “Is she originally from Somalia? So how are they doing it? How’s their government? Do they have a president? Do they have a council? Do they have anything? Do they have police? I love these people that come from a place with nothing, nothing, no anything, and then they tell us how to run our country.”
The president went on to describe the defeated motion to censure as a “great” step before reiterating that expelling her would be “even better.”
“They impeached me twice for nothing. And they impeached me knowing the Republicans are on my side, so they knew it was just impeachment. But she should be impeached, and it should happen faster.”
There is precedent for expelling members from Congress. As recently as 2023, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was booted from Congress as he was awaiting charges on campaign finance fraud charges, on which he has since been convicted.
In a follow-up post on Truth Social, Trump once again highlighted the numerous shortcomings of Somalia, which has long been plagued by terrorism and lack of any stable central government.
“Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence. 70% of the population lives in extreme Poverty, and widespread Food Insecurity. Somalia is consistently ranked among the World’s Most Corrupt Countries, including Bribery, Embezzlement, and a Dysfunctional Government,” the president wrote.
“All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America! P.S. Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it.”
