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President Trump, without evidence, suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) staged an incident during her town hall Tuesday night when a man sprayed her with an unknown substance.

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Trump continues to lie and incite violence against Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I think she's a fraud ... she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Jan 28, 2026 at 8:07 AM

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... "I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud," Trump told ABC News. "She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."

When asked if he had seen video of the incident, the president said, "I haven't seen it. No, no. I hope I don't have to bother."

A livestream of the town hall showed the man standing and yelling at Omar, who was calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment after two fatal shootings involving immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis. The suspect was tackled and arrested after spraying the lawmaker.

Omar continued with the town hall after the incident, saying, "These ---- ------ are not going to get away with it."

She struck an even more defiant tone in remarks after the event.

"I've survived war and I'm definitely going to survive intimidation or whatever these people think they can throw at me, because I'm built that way," the lawmaker said.

The Minnesota Democrat wrote later Tuesday on the social platform X: "I'm ok. I'm a survivor so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work."

"I don't let bullies win," she added. "Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 07:32 PM | Reply

The guy who faked his own assassination can shut the ---- up.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-28 08:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#2

Sometimes I have to wonder, just how much is Pres Trump projecting his own actions onto others with there unsubstantiated accusations.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 08:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oops, I had not seen the quite active thread on the Front Page on this topic.

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Which see ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 08:46 PM | Reply

I had not seen the quite active thread on the Front Page on this topic.
- gaslighter

Keep posting, DialAgain should be along shortly to admonish you.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-28 09:28 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Keep posting ...

Oh, I will.

Thank-you for that.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 09:39 PM | Reply

#5

---- off Jeff, you stupid ----

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-28 11:14 PM | Reply

Sounds like projection.

#8 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-01-29 07:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"President of United States Claims Omar 'probably Had Herself Sprayed'"

They say it was vinegar. So, maybe as some sort of PSA to extol the benefits of vinegar as a beauty treatment?

The Miraculous Benefits of Vinegar for Your Skin
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#9 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-29 09:06 AM | Reply

Sometimes I have to wonder, just how much is Pres Trump projecting his own actions onto others with there unsubstantiated accusations.
#3 | Posted by LampLighter

Like, all of it.

That is a conclusion I came to a few years ago. If you want to know what crappy things conservatives are doing, then just look at what they are accusing Dems of (election fraud anyone?). Conservatives don't have empathy. They seem just inherently incapable of considering someone else's perspective. They can only imagine what they would do if they were in someone else's situation. So if someone is different from them they cannot understand the struggles that they have to deal with (discrimination, racism). And they project their own flaws on everyone else, assume that if THEY would do something (immoral, unethical, illegal) that everyone else would too, that everyone must share their own immorality and lack of ethics or integrity.

#10 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-01-29 10:02 AM | Reply

#10 gtbritishskull says, "Conservatives don't have empathy."

Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil," developed while covering the Adolf Eichmann trial, suggests that monstrous evil isn't always driven by demonic intent but by ordinary people failing to think, refusing to imagine others' perspectives, and becoming thoughtless cogs in bureaucratic systems, reducing horrific acts to mere tasks or following orders, thereby making evil mundane, common, and deeply unsettling.
And ...
"In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy - Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials."
You are 100% on-point, gtbritishskull.

Thank you for your excellent and on-point insight, gtbritishskull.

#11 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-29 10:44 AM | Reply

Oooooooooooooooh...not bad!! Not bad at all. It's been quite a while since this argument has been used by either party. The ol' "the party did it to themselves to make a point" shtick hasn't been used effectively since the Smollet situation and liberals defending him like he's a saint. I'm sure it's been used in circles since then but not on a national scale.

Very interesting; however, I'm sure Trump and his goons had this one in their pocket just waiting to throw out when something bunches up their panties. But it's still not nearly as bad as one party supporting and/or encouraging violent riots, violent crimes done by illegals, etc. Well, now that a Rep did it though I guess we can start a betting circle to figure out when a Dem will do it. It's only a matter of time.

#12 | Posted by humtake at 2026-01-29 11:45 AM | Reply

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