Officials conducted a raid on her home and have issued over a dozen subpoenas to her family members.
  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.socialEnglish
    93·
    21 days ago

    Omar does have people fighting on her side. As my Nation colleague John Nichols reports, she remains popular with her constituents in Minnesota, and the state’s Democratic Party has rallied to her side. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries decried Trump’s “vile personal attacks” and the fact that Trump’s “violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.” Even former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was critical of Trump. In a post on X.com, Greene asked how “pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???”

    Greene’s pointed rebuke of Trump stands in sharp contrast to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who in the five days since the raid has yet to say one word in defense of Omar.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ilhan-omar-raid-trump-reaction/

    But there are people speaking up for her within the democrats and the media is right lit up about this right now.

    Your comparison to the Uvalde shooting is bullshit because the cops there not only didn’t do anything but they actively held people back who were trying to help too.

    • Cherries@lemmy.world
      93·
      21 days ago

      I agree that it is good that Jeffries is speaking out in defense of Omar, but I would argue that the only reason he is defending his progressive colleague is because he’s been recieving a bunch of pressure to do so. It is very obvious why the leader of the party is not defending Omar; it’s because of the progressive ideals she espouses.

      Leftists need to continue pressuring the Dems apparently for them to do the basics of their job. I see no reason why Jeffries would defend Omar without having experienced the pressure and criticism. He and the other Establishment Democrats in leadership positions have been actively sabotaging and holding back their progressive flank.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.socialEnglish
        82·
        21 days ago

        Don’t move the goalposts you compared the democrat’s reaction to the raid of Omar to be the same as the police response to Uvalde shooting.

        Which is bullshit.

        • Cherries@lemmy.world
          42·
          21 days ago

          Hakeem Jeffries saying, “This is bad y’all” is the same as police showing up to a shooting and playing Candy Crush on their phones. I want Hakeem Jeffries to pledge launching an investigation and using whatever power his party has, even if it ends in the president pardoning the people responsible. Just like I wanted the police to storm into the school and take down the shooter killing children. I want action being done.