The Ben Shapiro Show - October 13, 2026


What the Feds Are Investigating About Ilhan Omar

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00:00:00.000 We now have a little bit more color on why federal agents were searching Representative Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C. home, according to the Washington Post.
00:00:07.000 Federal authorities searched the D.C. home of Representative Ilhan Omar on Monday morning.
00:00:11.000 Homeland Security investigations, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, executed the search.
00:00:16.000 The DOJ confirmed it secured a court authorized warrant for a law enforcement action Monday morning, but the agency did not name Omar or confirm what the investigation search was connected to.
00:00:26.000 She was born in Somalia.
00:00:27.000 She fled the country's civil war with her family when she was a young girl and spent four years in a Kenyan Refugee camp and then immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 12 in 1995.
00:00:35.000 She was naturalized in 2000, was elected to Congress in 2018.
00:00:39.000 The investigation is being hilariously labeled World War 11 internally.
00:00:44.000 Obviously, a reference to the fact that she once referred to World War II as World War 11.
00:00:49.000 So according to the New York Post, the big picture here is that a federal judge in Washington, D.C. signed off on a search warrant.
00:00:55.000 That means there's probable cause that a federal crime was committed and there would be evidence of that crime in the area to be searched, which in this case was Representative Omar's home, according to former assistant U.S. attorney Jonathan Fahey.
00:01:05.000 One source who requested anonymity suggested it might relate to long standing, unverified claims that Omar misrepresented her age to get citizenship.
00:01:12.000 That she claimed that she was imported to the United States as a minor, but in reality, she was an adult, which means she would need to get her own individual citizenship granted as opposed to entering as a minor.
00:01:25.000 It's also possible that her father shouldn't have been allowed in in the first place.
00:01:29.000 In 2019, a concerned citizen and Minnesota local named AJ Kern called attention to Omar actually being 18 or 19 in 2000.
00:01:37.000 If she was older than 17 at the time, she would have been ineligible for citizenship via the parental route.
00:01:43.000 And then Omar's official birth year on the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library's website was revised from 1981 to 1982.
00:01:50.000 So the question would be if she continued to use fake dates on her passport renewals or bank loan applications or all of the rest.
00:01:58.000 So I'm sure we'll find out what's going on here.
00:02:01.000 It is also possible that they're investigating whether her parents committed some form of naturalization fraud.
00:02:07.000 Because, as the Washington Examiner has pointed out, in 1995, when her family was admitted to the United States, it turns out that a lot of her relatives held government jobs in Somalia under the Siad Barre socialist regime, which was responsible for a wide variety of human rights abuses.
00:02:23.000 Nur Omar Mohamed, the Congresswoman's father, was a senior officer in the Somali National Army, which was commanded by Barre.
00:02:29.000 After obtaining a military education in Soviet Russia, the elder Omar rose to the rank of colonel and played a significant role leading a regiment in the Somali Ethiopian War of the late 1970s, according to an obituary remembering Omar's father.
00:02:42.000 He was recognized for his role in the war launched by Barre.
00:02:47.000 Eventually, Barre's regime ended in 1991.
00:02:50.000 The army was disbanded.
00:02:52.000 So, it is true that the INA bars an alien from receiving asylum if it's determined that an applicant ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
00:03:04.000 So, you know, it's possible that that's what they're investigating also.
00:03:07.000 So, here's the deal.
00:03:08.000 Okay, here's the deal.
00:03:10.000 If she is here, not legally, if she did not do the legal thing, Then we ought to do the same analysis I've suggested for literally every dreamer, people who came here as children or people who have been here for a long time.
00:03:21.000 We should determine whether she is a net asset to the United States or not.
00:03:24.000 I would suggest she clearly is not, given the fact that she has spent her time promoting actual terrorists.
00:03:30.000 She literally wrote a letter to a judge in Minnesota asking for mercy for a guy who tried to join ISIS.
00:03:35.000 Given the fact that she despises the country, you know, if she's not here legally, then she can leave.
00:03:41.000 She can be swiftly, but now she's claiming, of course, that this is political intimidation.
00:03:45.000 She's not going to be silenced or whatever.
00:03:46.000 Okay, listen, if there's a legal violation, Then she will reap the consequence of it.
00:03:50.000 If not, then not.
00:03:52.000 President Trump, for his part, is trying to keep arm's length from all of this.
00:03:57.000 Here with President Trump on it.
00:03:58.000 Well, I understand they're looking at her very carefully.
00:04:02.000 I've always found her to be totally crooked personally, but that has nothing to do with me.
00:04:06.000 I think she's a terrible person, just a complainer.
00:04:08.000 She comes from a country that is a non country, and then she comes over here and she complains about our Constitution.
00:04:17.000 I think she's a terrible person, but that's really up to the DOJ.
00:04:22.000 I have nothing to do with her.
00:04:25.000 That is a proper statement from the president.
00:04:27.000 He is right.
00:04:27.000 She is, in fact, a terrible person, and it is up to the DOJ.
00:04:30.000 Zoramandani, of course, is now complaining.
00:04:32.000 He doesn't belong in the country either.
00:04:33.000 I mean, the reality that his parents were also given citizenship is a blot.
00:04:37.000 He says, This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.
00:04:44.000 Well, is that really what happened?
00:04:45.000 The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Representative Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country, the same one I took.
00:04:52.000 Yeah, that oath means nothing.
00:04:55.000 Nothing.
00:04:56.000 It is hard to imagine two people more disloyal to the United States than Zorhan Mamdani and Ilhan Omar.
00:05:03.000 Meanwhile, by the way, there are open questions still out there about Ilhan Omar allegedly marrying her brother in order to achieve some form of status for him to enter the country.
00:05:12.000 There's a picture of a marriage certificate between Ilhan Abdullahi Omar and Ahmed Noor Saeed Elmi.
00:05:21.000 That would be her brother.
00:05:23.000 And again, the allegation is that she basically committed immigration fraud on behalf of her brother.
00:05:28.000 That wouldn't end with deportation, it would end with jail time.
00:05:31.000 So, again, these are.
00:05:34.000 These are pretty terrible people we let into our country.
00:05:37.000 And if there are legal means for them to exit our country, then I'm all for it.
00:05:41.000 Meanwhile, speaking of terrible people who shouldn't be in our country, Abdul Al Sayed continues to run a very competitive race in Michigan.
00:05:47.000 Now, Barack Obama, who agrees with Al Sayed on everything, okay, can we dispense with this nonsense that Obama is somehow in tangential disagreement with Al Sayed?
00:05:55.000 He agrees with Al Sayed about everything.
00:05:56.000 He always has.
00:05:57.000 He just hit it.
00:05:58.000 In the same way that Barack Obama once claimed to be in favor of traditional marriage but was lying, when Barack Obama somehow claimed that he was moderate on America, Or claim that he was not a sympathizer with radical Islam.
00:06:10.000 He was lying.
00:06:11.000 It's not true.
00:06:12.000 He agrees with the same exact worldview as El Sayed.
00:06:15.000 He and El Sayed are on exactly the same page.
00:06:16.000 America is the great oppressor in the world.
00:06:18.000 It is America's fault that there is terrorism all over the world.
00:06:21.000 It is America and imperialism that is responsible for suffering in the third world.
00:06:24.000 He and Abdul El Sayed have always been on the same page.
00:06:27.000 So now Obama's cutting ads for him, of course.
00:06:29.000 And he's going to be stumping for him at an October 24th rally.
00:06:32.000 250 years ago, America was founded on a simple idea this country belongs to all of us.
00:06:40.000 Not just the wealthy, not just the well connected, everyone.
00:06:47.000 Today, that idea is under attack, and Michigan is where we fight back.
00:06:52.000 That's why I'm asking you to support Abdul El Sayed for the United States Senate.
00:06:58.000 Abdul's a doctor, and he's taken on special interests to fight for good jobs, better health care, and lower costs.
00:07:06.000 Abdul has never taken corporate money.
00:07:08.000 He understands that health care is a human.
00:07:10.000 Except for his friends.
00:07:12.000 And he thinks we should invest in it instead of wasting money on endless wars.
00:07:16.000 Again, it's just nonsense.
00:07:17.000 And again, he's hiding the ball because obviously, what Abdullah El Sayed, not endless wars, Abdullah El Sayed is pro terrorism.
00:07:22.000 He has always been, he is a charter fellow traveler with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:07:27.000 That is what he is.
00:07:29.000 And the attempt to portray him as anything but is truly an insane thing.
00:07:32.000 It's truly insane.
00:07:33.000 It's now being pushed, by the way, by Megyn Kelly.
00:07:36.000 Megyn Kelly has joined right on that Tucker Carlson bandwagon.
00:07:38.000 So Tucker Carlson has been stumping for El Sayed because here's the rule for Tucker.
00:07:42.000 And then Megyn always follows along because Megyn's rule in life.
00:07:45.000 Is that if there is a parade happening anywhere on earth, she will arrive, jump in front of it, and start waving a baton?
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00:08:55.000 So Tucker Carlson is leading the.
00:08:58.000 The anti Israel parade.
00:08:59.000 All you have to do is be anti Israel, preferably anti Semitic, and Tucker Carlson will find an excuse to support you from Graham Platner to Abdul El Sayed.
00:09:06.000 Well, now Megan's jumping online here.
00:09:08.000 I mean, that's one of the reasons El Sayed is doing so well, is because he is very firmly against the United States getting involved in any more of Israel's conflicts.
00:09:20.000 And Mike Rogers is more your typical Republican neocon.
00:09:25.000 As you guys know, there's a large portion of the Republican base now that is not neoconny and is tied.
00:09:30.000 Tired of foreign wars and really wants the president to be laser light focused on domestic issues, not Israel, not Iran, not the Middle East, and certainly not another war.
00:09:42.000 It is amazing to me that here she is ripping on the Republican candidate in Michigan because that Republican candidate is anti Iran and also anti Hezbollah and anti Hamas.
00:09:52.000 And she's siding with the radical Muslim who sides with Hezbollah and Hamas specifically because he does.
00:09:59.000 I love hiding this behind, oh, he just doesn't want us to be involved in any foreign wars.
00:10:02.000 Oh, that's, yes, I'm sure Abdullah Syed.
00:10:05.000 Is deeply, I'm sure that's what he is worried about.
00:10:08.000 By the way, it's not even true.
00:10:10.000 I noticed that Abdul Al Said is very much for funding of Ukraine.
00:10:13.000 So, um, she doesn't say that.
00:10:15.000 So, yeah, there's that.
00:10:16.000 But again, all that it comes down to for so many of these people is if you buy into the very online narrative, then you jump behind Abdul Al Said, which is really pathetic.
00:10:23.000 Truly, truly, truly pathetic stuff.
00:10:25.000 By the way, Abdul Al Said, as I say, he is a fellow traveler with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:10:28.000 That's who he is.
00:10:30.000 His sister literally tweeted in 2012 about how the family was associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and then tweeted, quote, Asked my aunt about the Muslim Brotherhood when she was visiting the U.S., she was surprised by respect for civil liberties, women, and religious minorities.
00:10:42.000 That's his sister.
00:10:45.000 By the way, this is about the time that Abdul Al Sayed was signing on to a letter calling on Mohammed Morsi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to crack down on dissidents, which was also about the same time that the American reporter Lara Logan was being sexually assaulted by Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt in 2011.
00:11:03.000 Our camera battery went down.
00:11:08.000 And We had to stop for a moment, and suddenly Baha looks at me and says, We've got to get out of here.
00:11:15.000 Baha is not happy here.
00:11:17.000 He's Egyptian, he speaks Arabic, and he can hear what the crowd is saying.
00:11:21.000 He understands what no one else in the crew understands.
00:11:24.000 That's right.
00:11:24.000 I thought, Not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.
00:11:32.000 So here we have it the so called woke right and the far left Obamaites locking arms because the only thing that matters is how much.
00:11:39.000 You hate Israel, apparently.
00:11:40.000 That is the only thing in the end that really matters.
00:11:42.000 Meanwhile, we will see.
00:11:44.000 I am skeptical that El Syed is in as much of a durable lead as people seem to think he is.
00:11:48.000 Democrats for Mike Rogers cut some ads featuring black Michiganders.
00:11:51.000 Apparently, in the polling data, he's not doing that well among black Michiganers.
00:11:54.000 He's just hoping to turn out in Dearborn.
00:11:57.000 Abdul El Said is for Palestine, but Mike Rogers is for Michigan.
00:12:02.000 Abdul Said is a puppet.
00:12:04.000 Well, there's strength somewhere.
00:12:05.000 I think Abdul cares more about the West Bank than West Detroit.
00:12:10.000 I feel like he cares about Palestine more than Michigan.
00:12:12.000 We need someone who is speaking for us first.
00:12:15.000 I'm a lifelong Detroiter.
00:12:17.000 I'm passionate about education.
00:12:19.000 I voted for Barack Obama, but this year I'm voting for Mike Rogers.
00:12:24.000 Abdul is way too arrogant and way too extreme.
00:12:27.000 He will kill our jobs and make our communities less safe.
00:12:34.000 Again, it'll be interesting to see what happens in that particular race.
00:12:37.000 Okay, meanwhile, in White House news, now the White House is announcing that they are thinking about firing Kimberly Guilfoyle.
00:12:43.000 Kimberly Guilfoyle, of course, was the paramour of Don Jr. before he broke up with her and got married.
00:12:49.000 She's also the former spouse of Gavin Newsom, so she's going to have a hell of a memoir.
00:12:53.000 Well, basically, the scandal surrounding Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was made ambassador to Greece because she was.
00:12:58.000 Basically, as a, as a person tangentially connected with the Trump kingdom, she was given a post far, far away in Greece.
00:13:06.000 And there she began to allegedly sell access.
00:13:11.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, for months, Guilfoyle had been chatting with Eric Dieters, a former congressional candidate in Kentucky, who was seeking her help in getting the attention of the new Trump administration on some personal tax and legal issues and had promised payments of as much as a million dollars if she was successful.
00:13:24.000 Dieters sent her a photo of a printed memo addressed to her, quote, I have paid you $300,000 over the years.
00:13:29.000 As of this memo, I've not received one favor.
00:13:31.000 I'm not naive or a sucker.
00:13:32.000 I need results.
00:13:33.000 In response, she told Dieters to stop papering all these things.
00:13:35.000 It's really dangerous.
00:13:36.000 Just call me on signal, she wrote.
00:13:39.000 I wrote a very nice message, told him how important it was that you're close to me and Don.
00:13:43.000 Also, very privately, she continued, if you write an email or text about it, I'm going to kill you because I love you, but you're so out of control.
00:13:48.000 That afternoon, she texted an update.
00:13:50.000 Boom.
00:13:51.000 A week later, on July 3rd, she placed two missed calls to Dieters' phone and sent him instructions on how to wire money to an American Express account.
00:13:57.000 And he wrote back, you're needing $100,000.
00:13:58.000 Urgent.
00:13:59.000 Unfortunately, it's not going to work.
00:14:00.000 I can't do this without getting a divorce.
00:14:02.000 So that doesn't look great.
00:14:06.000 So, when she was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. Ambassador, that's when she asked for the $100,000 in a way that would not leave a paper trail.
00:14:14.000 Yeah, not great, Bob.
00:14:16.000 Not great at all.
00:14:18.000 Like, at all.
00:14:20.000 So, the brand new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah, had her opening debut today, and she confirmed the administration has asked Guilfoyle to resign.
00:14:29.000 We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign.
00:14:33.000 She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.
00:14:38.000 Well, um, Unfortunately, I think this is only the beginning.
00:14:42.000 Because, yes, Guilfoyle should resign.
00:14:45.000 But if you think that Democrats aren't going to open every can of worms inside the Trump administration and drag every single person associated with the administration through the corruption mud, get ready.
00:14:54.000 It's coming.
00:14:55.000 Get ready.
00:14:55.000 It's coming.
00:14:56.000 Some of it will be deserved, by the way.
00:14:57.000 But that is what comes next.
00:14:59.000 Pretty obviously.
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