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A federal investigation into Democrat Minnesota Congresswoman and Resistance™ favorite Ilhan Omar appears to be taking a political and reputational toll. The most evident proof of this is the Elitist Media’s reluctance to cover the story, if at all.The NBC Nightly News was the only network broadcast to do anything on Omar, and it was an exercise in anti-news. Below the full report as aired on Thursday, October 29th, 2026:The sole network newscast report on Ilhan Omar, via @NBCNightlyNews, was an exercise in anti-news. Viewers got a recap rehash of what is already on the record, but omitting NYT report of Obama admin first looking into Omar sham marriage. ABC and CBS omitted outright pic.twitter.com/hsgTZaiiZN— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 30, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: And back here at home, we have some new reporting on the investigation into Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar that was once focused on whether she had a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother. Here’s Kelly O’Donnell.KELLY O’DONNELL: New details tonight about an ongoing criminal probe of Somali-born Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Feverish political controversy has surrounded a past Omar marriage, and whether she had wed her brother in a scheme to get him a green card, a claim Omar has denied. However, tonight, a shift to something much larger in scope and no longer focused on the legality of that marriage. According to a source familiar with the investigation, the FBI searched her. Washington, D.C., home earlier this month and seized Omar’s personal phone. Investigators have also obtained a phone belonging to at least one family member, according to a former official and a person with knowledge of the investigation. In a recent MS NOW interview, Omar was asked about that marriage.CHRIS HAYES: He was not- you were not related to him at all. ILHAN OMAR: Not that (unint)-  (CROSSTALK)HAYES: There’s not some weird kernel of truth that (unint)OMAR: Not to my knowledge.O’DONNELL: The investigation has expanded into Omar’s own immigration records, official documents and statements, according to a source familiar. Omar’s spokesman said tonight ”it is clear to everyone that this is politically motivated and an escalation of Trump’s personal vendetta against her.” Sources close to Omar say her legal team is filing a motion seeking the return of the Congresswoman’s phone and belongings. Kelly O’Donnell, NBC News, Washington.Kelly O’Donnell’s item broke no new ground in terms of the allegations against Ilhan Omar. Kelly O mentions the brother marriage and that investigations have expanded beyond that. But there are no specific details as to what those issues are, whether immigration or financial.Furthermore, there is zero mention of the related bombshell published in The New York Times:The federal investigation of Representative Ilhan Omar is focused in part on whether she entered into a sham marriage in 2009 to help a man suspected of being her brother obtain a green card, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent, current and former officials said.Speculation that Ms. Omar committed marriage fraud with a brother has shadowed the Minnesota Democrat’s political career for more than a decade and President Trump repeated the accusation last week. She has long called it a right-wing conspiracy theory that federal officials debunked during her first race for elected office in 2016.It turns out that Ilhan Omar’s sham marriage was known to authorities, if you will. The Times goes on to note that the statute of limitations had expired on the crime of marriage fraud. On nights like these, NBC’s bad reporting beats none at all from ABC and CBS. Both networks passed on updating the Omar story with the new reporting from the Times. CBS chose instead to lament that a WNBA championship game had to be played during lunch time. ABC ran a second day of the cruise ship that stranded their passengers in Cambodia. Both of these stories ran on A-block as the latest on Omar was suppressed.Iowahawk remains undefeated.Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 9, 2013 

America’s left-wing fringe, which is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party mainstream, absolutely hates our nation. You’d have to be blind not to see it.
Take the latest example: Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, the punk who just desecrated the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool in downtown Manhattan.
Earlier this week, Tijerina was arrested and charged for an act of brazen, iconoclastic vandalism. In broad daylight, the 31-year-old spray-painted, over the engraved names of dozens of those killed on that terrible day 25 years ago, a plug for his silly little anti-gun website: “Juststopkillingkids.com.”
Tijerina made no attempt to hide his dirty deed. On the contrary, he boasted about it on social media. He said he was “trying to spread awareness” about gun violence.
One imagines Hamas’s paragliders said the same thing when they donned GoPro cameras before swooping into the Nova music festival.
But if the goal was to spread awareness of Tijerina’s utter callousness, then he was successful.
The human atrocities of 9/11 are not from a distant past — something we’ve only encountered in a history textbook. Real families are still grappling with the fallout. Husbands are still grieving fallen wives, and young adults are still grieving fallen fathers.
It appears Tijerina targeted panels 70-71 of the memorial. Those are the names of the fallen workers from Windows on the World, the dining and entertainment complex from the top of the old World Trade Center North Tower. These weren’t the bankers and investors on the floors below — they were average Joes and Janes who just went to work on that pristine Tuesday morning.
Tijerina defaced them anyway.
He should rot in jail for a while. He probably won’t, while Soros-backed Alvin Bragg remains district attorney.
The issue is much bigger than one dimwitted and attention-starved punk.
The Left is now dominated by an anti-American movement that hates our history — even its most uncontroversial heroes, as the Washington and Lincoln defacements show.
We can (and should) draw a direct line from Tijerina’s stunt to the sacrilegious monument and statue vandalisms that were a staple of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.
During that dreadful summer, the “1619 Riots” defaced or tore down statues of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key, and countless others.
Apparently, preserving the Union and ending slavery wasn’t even enough to satiate the anarchists: They went after Abraham Lincoln too. (RELATED: Paris Is Burning. Is Washington Next?)
In 1861, the Great Emancipator praised “the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land.” The nation was on the cusp of ruinous carnage, and Lincoln appealed to “the better angels of our nature.” (RELATED: The Attack on Catholic America)
It didn’t work. Fort Sumter was attacked just over a month later. But Lincoln had a profound point: A nation needs a shared memory and a shared consciousness. It needs shared cultural touchstones, and it needs a shared sense of that which is sacred and that which is profane.
Do we share any of those things today? Many on the left are summoning the worst angels of their nature to answer resoundingly: “No.”
The Left is now dominated by an anti-American movement that hates our history — even its most uncontroversial heroes, as the Washington and Lincoln defacements show. (RELATED: The Left, Radical Left, and Democrats: Three Peas, One Pod)
It hates our people — and perhaps especially our working and middle classes, as Tijerina’s Windows on the World Freudian slip proved.
It hates all of it — and all of us.
It rejects our particular “mystic chords of memory” for the Marxist fantasy of a universal revolution of the proletariat. (RELATED: Hasan Piker and the Democrats Who Embrace His Violent Rhetoric)
It rejects our biblical inheritance for the unholy “red-green” stew of ersatz-religious wokeism and fanatical-religious Islamism.
It rejects our constitutional order for what Lincoln, in an earlier 1838 speech, decried as the “mobocratic spirit.”
In each era of American political, civic and cultural life, there is at least one defining divide. In Lincoln’s own time, the divide was between free and slave — between Union and secession.
In our own era, the defining divide is between civilization and barbarism.
There is a Third World-ist mind virus that is metastasizing like a cancer on the American Left. The Third World-ists have nothing but scorn for the nation that is the economic, entrepreneurial, and cultural envy of the whole world — the rest of the First World included. (RELATED: Why All Leftism Is Now Far Left)
They want to tear it all down. And some of them, like Tijerina and the 2020 rioters, take that sentiment quite literally.
The American Right is far from perfect, but it is a basically pro-America, pro-Western movement.
Given the stark dichotomy of the moment, that will hopefully be more than enough to prevail in the elections this Tuesday.
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