Radical Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) misplaced her prominence within the Biden years as they downplayed the perimeter a bit. However now that “Islamophobia” is again as President Trump known as Omar and her mates “rubbish,” the networks ran to pamper her once more.
One purpose Trump might need been known as Rep. Ilhan Omar “rubbish” is her connections to the fraudsters within the Somali group that stole greater than $1 billion in authorities cash that was imagined to feed kids.
On his CNN program The Lead on Wednesday, host Jake Tapper started by setting the stage concerning the fraud — earlier than nudging Omar’s anticipated barrage of Trump assaults. He famous the New York Occasions discovered some Somalis have been “making small fortunes by defrauding authorities packages of greater than $1 billion of taxpayer cash throughout the pandemic. We’re speaking about dozens of individuals in a group of 1000’s, in fact.”
He started by gently asking Omar “What are you listening to from investigators proper now?” He adopted up with “Are you able to shed any mild on why the fraud obtained so uncontrolled in Minnesota?” Omar babbled in generalities like Kamala Harris.
Tapper did not make any try and query Omar on her connections to this large fraud, or how Democrats pandered to their Somali voters by letting all this occur. The New York Publish reported on Thursday that Omar and her staffers defended the fraudulent charity known as “Feeding Our Future.” Guhaad Hashi Stated, who labored on Omar’s 2018 and 2020 marketing campaign as an “enforcer” who oversaw Somali voter mobilization, pleaded responsible in August to operating a pretend meals web site known as Advance Youth Athletic Improvement, the place he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day and pocketed $3.2 million out of the meals program.
As a substitute, Tapper painted her as a sufferer lectured about smearing Muslim migrants:
TAPPER: Now, clearly, regardless of the ethnic group, the actions of some dozen shouldn’t impugn a whole group of 1000’s of individuals. Okay, I wish to make that very clear. President Trump has used this fraud to make moderately shock — to me, shockingly bigoted feedback about Somalis typically, together with you, however the whole Somali group in Minnesota….I do not know the way shocked you might be at this at this level anymore, however Somali immigrants typically, you specifically have been the goal of his assaults for a very long time. What’s your response?
OMAR: Yeah. I imply, I am not shocked as a result of we all know that the president oftentimes resorts to very bigoted, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist rhetoric when he’s making an attempt to scapegoat and deflect from the precise failures that he has himself.
The worst broadcast interview with Omar this week occurred on NPR’s Morning Version. Co-host Michel Martin did the spoon-feeding of Omar: “You have been a favourite goal of President Trump because you have been elected, but it surely can’t have been simple to listen to him make these feedback about the whole Somali group. I simply puzzled what went by way of your thoughts when he mentioned issues like they contribute nothing and may return to the place they got here from and so forth.” Omar replied: “His vile rant actually wasn’t a shock to me. He has trafficked in racism, in xenophobia, in bigotry and Islamophobia for so long as he has held workplace.”
Morning Version anchor Steve Inskeep underlined NPR is Omar PR with this X submit on extra of her reply:
On NPR, Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to Trump’s two-day ramble about Somalis, together with US residents who make use of him:
Says she feels “disgrace” that “we elected only a actually loopy, deranged previous man who doesn’t have the flexibility to regulate himself.”
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) December 4, 2025
That is NPR, which claims it is an oasis of civil discourse. It is not. It is viciously anti-Trump on a regular basis.
On the fourth query, Martin lastly laid out that fraud occurred, after which simply requested “do you could have any response to that info?” Omar mentioned she was glad there was accountability for the taxpayers. Martin adopted up with one other puffball: “Are you involved that a whole group is being scapegoated due to the actions of this group of individuals?”
Radical Muslims get softballs. Conservatives get trashed. However they name it “public” radio.
