In the closing weeks of the midterm election cycle, Donald Trump struggled to formulate a closing argument, but the president had plenty to say about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Indeed, after the president ordered his administration to target the Minnesota congresswoman, federal agents seized the laptop, cellphone and passport of a sitting member of Congress based on highly dubious evidence. Soon after, Trump began falsely telling voters that “the Democrat [sic] Party has conceded her seat” and that she would no longer be permitted to serve in Congress. In late October, he went so far as to say she had been expelled from the House.
None of this reflected reality in any way, and Omar, who’s long denied any wrongdoing, soon after won re-election by a 60-point margin in her Minneapolis-area district.
Time will tell what, if anything, comes of the administration’s ongoing investigation into the congresswoman, but in the meantime, we’re continuing to learn more about the scope of Team Trump’s efforts. The New York Times reported:
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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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