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00:00Georgia seek recognition
00:02Mr. Speaker pursuant to clause 2a 1 of rule 9
00:06I seek recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the house
00:12Marjorie Taylor Greene just took a flamethrower to Ilhan Omar in Congress and we're going to break it all down
00:19This isn't just your standard political back-and-forth. This was a brutal gloves-off takedown that had the crowd erupting
00:26We're talking accusations of tax fraud illegal filings foreign influence and outright treasonous behavior and
00:33Greene went straight for the jugular. Was it a justified reckoning or a political stunt? That's what we're about to find out
00:40Let's get into it. The form of the resolution is as follows
00:45recognized
00:47censuring representative Ilhan Omar of Somali
00:50I mean, Minnesota, whereas elected members of Congress take an oath to bear true faith and allegiance to the United States
00:59without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion
01:03Whereas representative Ilhan Omar took an oath of allegiance to the United States upon becoming a citizen
01:09Declaring I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince
01:18Potentate state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen
01:26whereas on January 27th
01:282024
01:30Representative Omar gave remarks at an event in Minneapolis in which she made treasonous statements
01:36whereas representative Omar said she has spoken to many Somalians who asked her to intercede for the Somali government by
01:44pressuring the United States government
01:46Into certain actions. This is the moment everything shifts
01:50If this quote is accurate and let's be real context is everything
01:54Then green is arguing that Omar is acting as an agent for Somalia while serving in US Congress
02:00That's not just bad optics. That's the kind of thing that gets people removed from office
02:06But let's also acknowledge the double standard how many politicians have cozied up to foreign interests
02:12Especially in the Middle East and not face this level of outrage
02:16Whereas representative Omar assured the Somalians
02:19She spoke to the US government will only do what Somalians in the u.s
02:23Tell them to do they will do what we want and nothing else
02:28They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia
02:34Whereas representative Omar continued for as long as I am in US Congress
02:40Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others
02:47sleep in comfort knowing I am here to protect the interest of Somalia from
02:54inside the US system
02:57whereas George Washington warned in his farewell address of
03:011796 to guard against the imposters of
03:05Pretended patriotism and further declared citizens by birth or choice of a common country
03:12That country has a right to concentrate your affections the name of American which belongs to you in your
03:20national capacity must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any
03:27Appellation derived from local discriminations
03:30Whereas these statements by representative Omar clearly violate the oath
03:34She took as an elected member of Congress to defend and protect the United States
03:40Constitution whereas representative Omar has exhibited the treasonous tendencies George, Washington
03:46warned about and her
03:49actions must be condemned by all members of Congress who adhere to the oath they took upon assuming office and
03:56Whereas by openly admitting her efforts to advance Somalia's interest
04:02using her position as a United States representative
04:07Representative Omar has revealed herself to be a foreign agent acting on behalf of a foreign government
04:13Now therefore be it resolve that representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota be censured
04:19representative Ilhan Omar forthwith present herself in the well of the House of
04:24Representatives for the pronouncement of censure
04:27representative Ilhan Omar be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the speaker and
04:35representative Ilhan Omar be and is hereby removed from the committee of the budget and the committee on education
04:42and the workforce
04:54Glenn Gruenhagen of Glencoe, Eric Lucero of Dayton, Shane Mecklen of Clearlake, Tim Miller of Prinsburg
05:00Linda Runbeck of Circle Pines, Kalbar of East Bethel
05:04John Poston of Lakeshore, Duane Quam of Byron and Jeremy Munson of Lake Crystal
05:11We are making these this request on three direct grounds first
05:16Representative Omar improperly and deliberately filed for a tax status for which she was not qualified
05:22In a legal action in both federal and state law
05:26The Minnesota campaign finance board found on June 6th of this year that she illegally used campaign funds to pay a law firm
05:34to review her tax records
05:36The campaign finance board exposed crystal-clear
05:40probable cause for a tax fraud or tax evasion
05:44investigation when they discovered that representative Omar filed as
05:48Married and joint in filing jointly with Mr. Ahmaud Hersey in 2014 and 2015
05:56During those years. She was legally married to Mr. Ahmaud Elmy
06:01Did the legal did the illegal filing produce a lower tax liability for the couple
06:07Did her illegal tax filing bring her tax exemption for which she was not legally qualified?
06:13Usually people choose the tax filing status that yields them the lowest tax liability
06:20Also, the board shared that the couple filed jointly during two specific years
06:27Ilhan Omar and Ahmaud Hersey have been together as a couple for 17 years
06:33Given her record of crimes and violations of so many laws and may be worth evaluating her her claims of status
06:40In those other years as well
06:42This is character assassination 101 pile on accusations, even if nothing has been legally proven
06:50This part plays directly into the guilt by association strategy
06:55Once a politician is under the microscope
06:58Every minor misstep becomes evidence of corruption
07:01the bigger question if
07:03Omar was a Republican would we be hearing about this or would the same people calling for her head now be defending her?
07:13Simultaneously with her first and second husbands at the same addresses in Minneapolis in Minnesota and North Dakota in
07:202009 through
07:222011
07:23The tax enforcers may need to check if she used an illegal tax filing status and obtained tax
07:30Deductions including standard deduction levels for which she was not qualified in those years
07:36third
07:37We know that represent Omar took improper kickbacks from three, Minnesota colleges in
07:432017 when she oversaw their state budgets in
07:472017
07:48Under campaign pressure. She returned those kickbacks in 2018
07:53It is worth checking to see if she reported the kickbacks as income in
07:572017 or deducted the paybacks as expenses in 2018
08:02Five grounds for an investigation include corruption and public in public office and tax evasions on grounds of illegal filing status
08:11improper deductions
08:12Concealed income from kickbacks and improper claims for expenses
08:17We are also aware of represent Omar's pattern of improper conduct
08:21She has been fined by the campaign finance for board for diverting campaign funds for an unpermitted political trip to Orlando
08:28She has been directed to pay back her expenses for uncovered political trips to Boston, New York
08:35Philadelphia Chicago
08:36Florida and Washington DC
08:39She has been punished for conversion of campaign funds to pay for personal legal and accounting services
08:46She has flouted laws regarding the filing of her personal financial data in a way that distorted the political campaign process
08:54On June 25th, I asked my congresswoman Angie Craig to launch an investigation into these improprieties
09:01That went nowhere
09:03She said do it yourself
09:06So on June 23rd, I asked excuse me on July 23rd
09:10I asked the US House Ethics Committee to investigate representative Omar that request is currently being reviewed by the Office of Congressional Ethics
09:19On that same day
09:20I launched Omar truth comm in an effort to rally Minnesotans and Americans to help bring political pressure to bring about a congressional
09:29investigation
09:30After two weeks, we have over
09:3344,000 citizens expressing their strong desire to bring about the full investigation and the list is growing
09:40I will be adding today's request to the facts available on Omar truth calm
09:47Today I and nine other representatives are asking the nonpartisan federal and state tax enforcers to open investigations
09:55We are simply asking them to do their jobs
09:58I
10:13Think certainly there's precedent and I think it's incumbent upon us Mary
10:20lawmakers the media and others when they see very clear blatant violations of our laws to find every way we can to appeal to
10:27The people who can investigate and prosecute those laws and that's what we're doing here today
10:39You know, I I don't think so, you know
10:42I I guess the fact that we each represent 40,000 people might be helpful and it might be something that
10:49that those individuals take under consideration, but this this gives us an ability I think to in an organized
10:57Deliberative fashion say we have asked the Minnesota Department of Revenue to do their job
11:02We have asked the IRS to do their job before we got here today
11:06We don't know if they have been fully informed and appraised of these facts
11:10After today, we can be sure that they've been fully informed and appraised of these facts
11:27Well, he would have a lot more sway
11:30You know, I I don't know that it's really our job to make that request to the president
11:35It's it I think he is aware of what is going on. I expect he is
11:40and
11:42You know this effort today may make him more aware of some of those details and it'll be his decision
11:46As he looks at the facts and the circumstances in Washington to make that to make that call
11:52Is that part of your goal today to get more of his attention?
11:55I think it's our goal to get his attention and every American's attention about
12:02What is going on here?
12:05It seems to me that
12:08That if this was a conservative Republican
12:11That we would already have action going forward and boom. Here's the hypocrisy call-out except it's coming from Green herself
12:20The irony is off the charts
12:23Republican figures have had their fair share of legal and ethical questions, but when it's one of their own, it's just political persecution
12:30But when it's a Democrat suddenly justice must be served
12:34Let's be clear if there's real fraud investigate it, but don't pretend this outrage is about principles
12:53President Trump's
13:00Well, I think people have asked President Trump to bring his taxes forward for political reasons I don't know that there's been