Ilhan Omar
On Thursday, far-right representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced aย resolutionย calling for the censure of Democrat Ilhan Omar, a frequent target of Republicans. Taylor Greene claimed that a recent speech Omar had given was โtreasonous,โ and constituted evidence that Omar is an agent working on the behalf of a foreign government.
Rep.ย Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s Resolution To Censure Ilhan
Republican conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene denounced hard-left Rep. Ilhan Omar as a ‘foreign agent’ Thursday, as she said she wanted to deport the congresswoman for apparently putting Somali interests ahead of American interests.
In a video posted to the social media platform , Greene announced she was introducing a motion to censure Omar and said: ‘Her comments are outrageous. She’s acting as a foreign agent within our very government.’
It comes amid a rightwing backlash to Omar for comments she made to a Somali American audience in which she said she would do everything in her power to prevent the breakaway republic of Somaliland allowing landlocked Ethiopia to use its coastline.
According to Mail Online , in a call to unity, and being an American law maker Omar quoted apparently saying: ‘We as Somalians, we love each other. ‘ There are areas of friction that led us to kill each other but in reality we are an organized society, brothers and sisters, people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second.’
A clip with subtitles went viral but Omar said its meaning had been distorted.
Even so, several Republicans have said they want to deport the congresswoman to the country of her birth.
‘Today, I introduced a censure resolution against Ilhan Omar,’ said Greene. ‘And the reason why I did this… and I’ll just say this: censure is not going far enough.
‘If it were up to me, we would expel Ilhan Omar and deport her out of the United States.’
Greene painted Omar’s comments as part of a pattern of Democrats operating in the interests of foreign countries, including the debunked theory that Joe Biden’s family profited for having a prosecutor fired in Ukraine.
“Ilhan Considers Herself More Of Somali”
‘I’m telling you right now she is acting as a foreign agent on behalf of a foreign country. Our country is going to be taken over from the inside. She’s not the only one,’ she said.
‘Look at Joe Biden. We’re investigating Joe Biden for his family getting paid millions of dollars. For him acting in the interest of other countries. And to him getting rich by it.
‘We’re talking about Ukraine and Burisma. He got a prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired in Ukraine and his family took millions of dollars for that.’
In fact, although then Vice President Joe Biden pushed for the removal of Ukraine’s top prosecutor, there is no evidence his family benefited. In fact, Biden was carrying out the policy of the Obama administration, in concert with other Western nations who thought Shokin was an impediment to rooting out corruption.
Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress and has long been a target of the right for her progressive politics.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race last month, slammed her comments.
‘Expel from Congress, denaturalize and deport,’ he posted on X.
Former President Donald Trump’s son condemned her remarks.
And House Republican whip Tom Emmer called for an ethics investigation into her ‘appalling’ rhetoric.
Her comments came during a January 27 address to constituents alarmed by geopolitical developments in Somalia. Ethiopia and Somaliland reportedly signed a memorandum of understanding allowing the Ethiopian government to build a naval base and commercial port on the coast.
‘This country is one where one of your daughters sits in Congress,’ she said. ‘While I am in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea.
‘The United States will not back others to rob us. So, do not lose sleep over that, O Minnesotans. The lady you sent to Congress is on this, and she is as cognizant of this interest as you are.’ In this version she does not talk about being ‘Somalis first.’
‘We are sisters and brothers, supporting each other, people who know they are Somalis and Muslims, coming to each otherโs aid and aiding their brothers and sisters,’ reads the translation by analyst Abdirashid Hashi.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, House minority leader, accused Greene of wasting everyone’s time.
‘Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the ringleaders of the extreme MAGA Republicans on the floor right now, not trying to solve a problem for the American people but once again to bring another frivolous censure resolution designed to inflame and castigate and further divide us,’ he said.
‘Don’t we have enough division in America right now? Don’t we have enough challenges that we should be working together to solve?’