DOJ charged Somali man in apparent effort to build case against Ilhan Omar

Federal prosecutors charged Abdullahi Mohamed, a former bodyguard to Rep. Ilhan Omar, with lying under oath, but dropped the case in September 2026 shortly before DHS agents raided Omar's Washington, D.C., home. Attorney Bruce Rivers alleged the probe was '100 percent being run by 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.' to turn Mohamed into an informant. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated a RICO case was being built against Omar and her family.

DOJ case against Ilhan Omar

• ▪Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Abdullahi Mohamed, who served briefly as Representative Ilhan Omar's bodyguard, alleging he lied to a government official under oath
• ▪The DOJ claimed that the charges against Abdullahi Mohamed were 'completely unrelated to any current investigations.'
• ▪The DOJ dropped charges against Abdullahi Mohamed in September 2026, shortly before Homeland Security agents raided Representative Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home
• ▪Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated the government was building a RICO case against Representative Ilhan Omar and her family
• ▪Bruce Rivers said prosecutors repeatedly told him and Abdullahi Mohamed that the investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar was '100 percent being run by 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.'
• ▪Abdullahi Mohamed's lawyer Bruce Rivers said prosecutors spent months attempting to turn Mohamed into an informant to bolster a federal investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar

Mississippi voter roll purge

• ▪Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson's office sent bad data to local officials based on unverified information from credit agency Experian, causing hundreds of thousands of voters to be removed from active voter rolls
• ▪More than 230,000 voter registrations in Mississippi were deemed inactive by Secretary of State Michael Watson
• ▪A coalition of civil rights groups including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Mississippi, and the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson four days before the November 2026 midterms, asking him to reinstate voters removed from rolls due to Experian's data
• ▪In 2024, Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson signed a $50,000 contract with Experian to use the company's unverified address data across the state

Trump Veterans Day remarks

• ▪At the November 11, 2026 Veterans Day ceremony, President Donald Trump described veterans as forming a 'mighty wall of flesh and blood, bravery and devotion that has defended our freedom for 250 years.'
• ▪President Donald Trump spoke at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on November 11, 2026

ICE detainee database concealment

• ▪ICE's contractors were given a script to use on callers informing them that detained immigrants' locations were no longer available in the public database
• ▪A federal judge blocked the U.S. government from deporting Ann Lawani while her habeas petition was in progress and ordered officials to explain why she should not be released
• ▪Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deliberately kept tens of thousands of detainees with final deportation orders out of a public database starting in September 2026
• ▪University of San Francisco nurse and professor Ann Lawani was detained

ICE agent racist history

• ▪ICE admitted it had a warrant for a different person and that Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was never a target of the July 2026 traffic stop
• ▪ICE agent David Brouillette fatally shot Colombian man Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, age 25, during a traffic stop in Maine in July 2026
• ▪In 2021, four years before joining ICE, David Brouillette sent emails to family members making derogatory remarks about his sister's Colombian partner, writing 'He can takes his non citizen ass back to his country and enjoy his third world luxuries.'
• ▪David Brouillette's mother, Susan Bedard, stated 'He is dangerous and should not have weapons' and urged people to 'Believe his victims, not him.'