Trump demands answers on Ilhan Omar’s $30M and accuses her of being here ‘illegally’
President Donald Trump wasted little time assailing Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar after federal agents raided her Washington, DC- area home on Monday.
The president blasted the Somali immigrant as ‘totally crooked,’ even while he insisted he had ‘nothing to do’ with the criminal investigation into his longtime foe.
‘I’ve always found her to be totally crooked personally, but that has nothing to do with me,’ Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday before departing to appear at a midterm campaign rally in Ohio. ‘I have nothing to do with it.’
‘I understand they’re looking at her very carefully,’ Trump added of the Homeland Security investigations’ raid on Omar’s DC-area home.
The raid was carried out just three weeks before the midterm elections, breaking with longstanding internal Justice Department policies.
Omar, a Somali migrant who came to the US at age 12 with her family after they were granted asylum, has sparred with Trump for years.
Trump has falsely suggested on multiple occasions that Omar is in the country ‘illegally,’ despite the fact she obtained US citizenship in 2000, at age 17.
‘She’s here illegally,’ Trump said of Omar at an event in December 2025, taking aim at Omar, ‘whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban…’
‘Throw her the hell out,’ he said.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference in Minneapolis
Agents of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are seen outside the residence of US Rep. Ilhan Omar in Washington, DC
Notes are seen outside the office of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the Longworth House Office Building in October
Speaking at the rally in Ohio, Trump said of Omar: ‘She comes in from a country without laws, without police, without military, where all they do is shoot each other, and she comes into our country and she says, ‘’I have a constitutional right,’’ he said.
‘She’s telling us about the Constitution, and she comes from one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet,’ he added.
The remarks come as Trump has repeatedly amplified claims questioning Omar’s net worth, pointing to an earlier financial disclosure suggesting that Omar and her family were worth at least $30 million.
The April disclosure sparked a flurry of calls for an investigation and misconduct charges by Republicans and lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee who questioned the apparent influx of wealth, which Omar and her office said was the result of an error by her accountant.
Last month, the Office of Congressional Conduct dismissed the misconduct allegations against Omar regarding the reporting error, as CNBC reported.
Omar for her part fired back against Trump’s latest remarks – denouncing the raid on her house as the latest in a flurry of recent efforts to ‘weaponize’ the nation’s law enforcement agencies, as well as an attempt to intimidate her in her reelection campaign.
‘For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns,’ Omar said on social media later.
‘This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.’
