Hypocrisy-maxxing: Here's how the Democrats now melting down over Ilhan Omar raid reacted to Mar-a-Lago raid



Many of the Democrats now melting down over Homeland Security Investigations' raid of Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C.-area residence weren't at all fussed when their top political opponent was having his home searched by armed federal agents.

Quick recap

A Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed to the New York Times that HSI agents executed a judicially authorized search of a home in the D.C. area on Monday as part of an "ongoing federal criminal investigation."

'No one is above the law.'

Three people briefed on the matter told the Times that the search warrant for the Somali-born ethno-nationalist's house lists various potential immigration crimes under investigation including fraud in immigration paperwork.

Omar has long been dogged by allegations that she married her brother to help him fraudulently obtain immigration status in the United States. She has called the allegations "absolutely false and ridiculous."

The raid on Monday comes just weeks after White House border czar Thomas Homan confirmed the existence of an HSI criminal probe into Omar.

Homan told Fox News that “if someone committed immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they're a congressman or not, no one's above the law.”

A tale of two raids

Omar's office called the raid "an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies," and Omar called it "an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement."

Democrats quickly joined Omar in condemning the judicially authorized search and in characterizing it as "unprecedented" and "disturbing."

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.J.), House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), and Rep. Peter Aguilar (D-Calif.), for instance, claimed in a joint statement, "The Trump administration’s raid on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home is deeply disturbing and raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries."

The trio also criticized the federal government for targeting a lawmaker's home ahead of an election.

Jeffries sang a different tune, however, when just months ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, the FBI raided President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence with guns drawn.

The day after the raid, Jeffries tweeted, "No one is above the law." In the weeks that followed, he repeatedly used this line and stated that while "extraordinary," the raid appeared to be justified.

Eight days after the FBI swarmed Mar-a-Lago, Katherine Clark also defended the raid, stating in an interview with GBH News, "This was a legal search warrant signed off by a federal judge."

Clark further claimed that Republicans were playing a "dangerous game" by condemning the raid and stressed the need to wait and "see what this investigation turns into."

At the time, Aguilar insinuated that the Mar-a-Lago raid was necessary, concern-mongered about the classified documents found at Trump's residence, and insisted that Trump was fair game.

This trio is hardly the only group of Democrats whose complaints now ring hollow owing to their disparate response four years ago.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) clutched pearls on Monday over the Omar raid, calling it an "assault on our constitutional values"; an "outrageous abuse of power"; part of a broader "campaign of political retribution" against a critic of the president; and "blatant political intimidation and an attempt to interfere with the Congresswoman’s reelection."

Raskin did not appear to be similarly outraged over the FBI's election-time raid of Trump's residence.

When asked on Aug. 9, 2022, about the Mar-a-Lago raid, Raskin coolly said, "Speaking as a citizen, we all have an interest in the rule of law in the country and respect for the rule of law, and the resistance to the lawlessness that seems to be, you know, always out there now."

California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) whined about the Omar raid this week, claiming in a video statement that "it is simply chilling that they are targeting political opponents this way."

Like his comrades, Khanna took an entirely different approach in 2022, telling then-MSNBC host Ari Melber, "The FBI doesn't just go in unless a judge signs off on a search warrant. That means they have some probable evidence about possible wrongdoing."

Khanna further said that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department were just "following the facts" and that "it's not for me or members of Congress to say what should happen."

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is another hypocritical Democrat who felt obligated to defend the 2022 raid but condemn the 2026 raid.

Tlaib told Michigan Advance days after the Mar-a-Lago raid that Trump is "not above the law. If he committed a crime, he should be held accountable to it. I don’t care that he was president of the United States. If anything, we set a dangerous precedent if we let folks get away with these kinds of things, especially when it comes to, you know, national security."

Now that the shoe is on the Somali foot, Tlaib is crying foul.

She stated on Monday, "Trump is grossly abusing his power to raid the home of Rep. Omar. He has repeatedly attacked her, Somali Americans, and Minnesotans. @Ilhan has done nothing to justify a pre-dawn raid ahead of the election. I stand with my sister always."

Even Omar herself claimed that "no one is above the law" when arguing that the criminal indictment of Trump was a sign that the justice system worked as designed. "The fact that one of the most powerful people in the world was investigated impartially and indicted by a grand jury is testament to the fact that we live in a country of laws," she tweeted in March 2023.

Vice President JD Vance rejected Democrats' claim this week that the administration is weaponizing federal law enforcement against Trump adversaries, telling Fox News Digital on Tuesday, "We don't want to be like the Biden administration. We never want to be like that — where they would allow the law to go after their political opponents."

"We really want to let the law, the facts drive this," said Vance. "And if justice requires something else be done, then, of course, we'll take a step when we have to."

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Democrats’ latest victory in deep-red Mar-a-Lago district offers bleak midterm forecast



Republicans are facing yet another brutal electoral loss after Democrat Emily Gregory sailed through her special election in a deep-red district.

Gregory was elected to represent the 87th district in the Florida House Tuesday night, securing 51.2% of the vote while her Republican opponent, Jon Maples, won just 48.8% of the vote. This district, which includes President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, was previously held by Republican Mike Caruso.

Republicans have not flipped a single Democrat-held seat since Trump was elected.

Caruso, who vacated his seat in August to become Palm Beach County clerk of the circuit court and comptroller, won the seat by 19 points in 2024. Similarly, Trump won the district by 11 points in the 2024 presidential election.

Gregory's victory is hardly an outlier. Since Trump was elected in November 2024, Democrats have managed to flip dozens of seats in key elections and have come uncomfortably close to defeating other Republicans in deep-red districts.

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In 2025 alone, Democrats flipped 25 state Senate and House seats previously held by Republicans out of the 119 seats that were up for grabs through special or regular elections. Democrats flipped 13 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates alone and another five seats in the New Jersey General Assembly, even breaking a supermajority in Mississippi.

Democrats flipped another nine seats, including local elections in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, New Hampshire, and Arkansas.

With Gregory's victory Tuesday night, Democrats have successfully flipped 29 seats previously held by Republicans.

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In contrast, Republicans have not flipped a single Democrat-held seat since Trump was elected in November 2024, offering a bleak forecast for the GOP going into the 2026 midterms.

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‘The party of hating dogs’: Liberals lose their minds after celebrity attends event to SAVE DOGS at Mar-a-Lago



Actress Katherine Heigl was in attendance at Mar-a-Lago last weekend where she posed for photos with Lara Trump and Jeanine Pirro. And while the left is not happy with seeing the actress there, it was at an event that raised $5.5 million for Big Dog Ranch Rescue.

“Liberals outraged, I told you about everything, including dogs. Dogs,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments, shocked. “They don’t like dogs. That's how you know they’re not the party for you. They are the party of hating dogs, because there was a big fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago to rescue dogs.”

“Now everyone hates Katherine Heigl for going there and trying to raise money to save dogs,” she adds.


One X user wrote, “F**k her and anyone attending maga-lago for any reason,” while another wrote, “Supporting Nazis. So many orgs that aren’t run by white supremacists. This is a choice.”

However, Heigl wasn’t taking the attacks lying down.

"Animals don’t vote. The only room they don’t like is the euthanasia room at a shelter," Heigl told Page Six in a statement. "They are completely at the mercy of us, and they have no voice of their own."

"This event was about animal advocacy, something that has always been deeply personal to me," she continued. "Anyone who knows me knows that protecting animals is one of my greatest passions."

“The point is, animals, of course, do not knowingly vote,” Gonzales comments, adding, “They’re not involved in our politics. And the charity event raised $5.5 million for rescue dogs.”

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In a case that has stretched over several years, a federal judge has seemingly put a nail in the coffin of a major report, the release of which President Donald Trump has consistently opposed.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who has served the Southern District of Florida since 2020, permanently barred the Department of Justice from releasing former special counsel Jack Smith's final report regarding Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Politico reported.

'Special Counsel Smith and his team went ahead for months, undeterred, preparing Volume II using discovery collected in connection with this proceeding and expending government funds in the process.'

Trump's motion to bar the release of the special counsel's report — which Cannon previously determined Smith and his office had unlawfully prepared during the Biden administration — was granted in full on Monday.

"The Court has reviewed the Motions and the full record pertinent to the Motions, including the United States' position that 'Volume II should not be released outside of the Department of Justice' due to the unlawful appointment of Special Counsel Smith and Attorney General Bondi's deliberative-process determination. Fully advised in the premises, Trump's Unopposed Motion is GRANTED," the Trump appointee wrote in the ruling.

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Cannon's ruling on the "complex" case, which she said "generated close to 800 docket entries since the filing of the initial indictment in June 2023," will ostensibly put to rest the impending release of Volume II of Smith's report.

Following the order, the current Department of Justice and its successors are "enjoined from (a) releasing, sharing, or transmitting Volume II of the Final Report or any drafts of Volume II outside the Department of Justice, or (b) otherwise releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in Volume II or in drafts thereof."

However, a second motion filed by two co-defendants alongside Trump was rejected in part. This separate motion requested that Volume II be destroyed, but this request was denied.

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