JD Vance accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of having “definitely committed immigration fraud” and said that he’d recently spoken with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller about how best to “go after her.”

Speaking on a podcast hosted by MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Friday, Vance was asked about claims that Omar had defrauded the United States by marrying her brother to secure his legal residency.

The unsubstantiated claim has circulated in MAGA circles for years but has been denied by Omar multiple times. The congresswoman was born in Somalia but moved to Minneapolis with her family in 1997, fleeing the civil war.

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    Why don’t you start with that South African illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa illegally? Remember what his name was? Elon Musk? Ring a bell?

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    JD Vance definitely fucked a couch. So take that with a grain of salt. They are obviously pushing out to the front because Trump is sun downing hard into deep dementia while burning the country to the ground. No one likes the funny looking little fucker either. Don’t forget your mascara you esmaculate douche pretending to be a strong man.

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      And a claim like this isn’t something within jurisdiction of the VP I don’t believe. So it isn’t an official act for him to be making this claim. Therefore suing him directly for libel I would think should be fine.

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    I’m thinking their plan is just to say the most outlandish items to get in the headlines. Then when they actial do something, it’s horrible but not as horrible as what they have said. It’s time to ignore everything coming out of Trump, Vance, Miller, Musk, & everyone else connected to this administration.

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      This is this year’s “Obama’s birth certificate is needed, he was born in Kenya” bullshit witchhunt/conspiracy theory.

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    Hey Vance why don’t you go check up on your mom I hear she is snoring Ajax cleaner off an old couch cushion.

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    Things JD Vance Hates:

    • Brown people
    • Women
    • Muslims
    • Anti-fascists

    Ilhan Omar is everything he hates and she is one of the few people in power in the government who actually stands up against tyranny. No surprises here.

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      Things JD Vance Hates:

      • Brown people

      Which is extra weird considering this is his wife:

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        She’s probably a self hating Asian who would rather have a racist partner as long as he’s white than be with an Asian man. It’s like short women who only want a tall partner because they feel insecure and need to compensate. But here it’s a woman who feels that her non-whiteness is inferior and thus she needs to compensate by marrying a white man. And with that inferiority complex she attracts racist men.

        There are way too many racist white man with an Asian wife for it to be a coincidence.

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          1. I’ve literally never heard of that take on short women. Not saying you’re wrong, but that’s new to me.

          2. Her family is from India. They have a caste system and you bet your ass she’s from the top of that. She’s from a long line up “upper class” people who look down on the poor and disenfranchised. She just happens to be a little brown.

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          Peculiar, while accurate, to see folks from india referred to as Asian.

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            Did you know that in the UK when people use the term Asian they mean people with South Asian ethnicity.

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                It gets confusing because usually people just call them asian too 💀 i say “east asian” though because everyone knows you mean chinese, korean et cetera in that case, and you might specify south asian for indians, pakistanis etc.

                In the UK we have more south asians than east asians, but I’m pretty sure it’s the inverse in america. So if somekne in the uk says describes someine as “asian,” it’s a safer bet that they mean “indian subcontinent” or middle east rather than East-Asian.

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            Isn’t that a joke they made in Pineapple Express? “What sort of Asian!? Indian people are technically Asian!”

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    Remember, Elon Musk was in America on a student visa but working for his brother’s company instead of attending school. That’s visa fraud, which you’re required to disclose on any subsequent visa or citizenship applications. He didn’t, so he’s also guilty of immigration fraud.

    Anyone who runs on seizing his assets and locking that illegal immigrant in a detention facility gets my vote

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    JD Vance has a law degree from Yale. He knows better. I remember when politicians didn’t direct the DOJ to go after their opponents with bogus claims of wrongdoing.

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      The DOJ doesn’t answer to Vance unless Trump is gone though… Unless Trump is going to claim the VP has authorities not defined by his role, which I really doubt the Republican party wants to give more power to those positions right now seeing how sketchy everything looks for their future.

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        Damn, blast from the past. I remember when this individual and his personal crusade against video games were constantly in the (specialised) news…

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    definitely committed immigration fraud

    Gaslight

    how best to ‘go after her’

    Obstruct

    I’m not certain of it, but we at least need to investigate it because if people can commit wrongdoing without even the fear that they’re going to be found out, that’s a fundamental problem.

    Project

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    While we’re at it, I’ve never seen trumps long form birth certificate. Is he even American?

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        During the 2016 debate, Hillary Clinton called him out on paying no federal taxes some years. His response was, “that makes me smart.”

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          Yeah Republicans loved that. They loved it.

          They are all selfish and ignorant. These people are a minority of the American people, yet the largest majority doesn’t vote… So the little mean, stupid clique of idiots win, and we get this bullshit.

          That majority on the US needs to wake the fuck up. If they don’t, we’re all fucked. Apathy is destroying this nation.

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    J. D. Vance and Trump are the kind of people that simply don’t deserve to be part of a society, because all they do is evil and selfish.
    They should be expelled to live in some remote uninhabited region, and never be allowed back to civilization.
    But since we don’t have that practice, they are also the kind of people that actually deserve the death penalty, because they have caused mass death of innocent people, contrary to many that have actually received a death penalty.
    These people are so despicable that they are no better than serial killers, yet at election day half the voters supported getting such an administration. And still more than a third support them, and the only reason it has declined is because of oil prices going up. All the sociopathic shit they do is OK!