We have come to expect sanctimony mixed with hypocrisy from Barack Obama.
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We → come → Obama
But his latest endeavor turns out to be a doozy.
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endeavor → turn → ?
Preaching his usual moral superiority, the former president recently took to social media to inveigh against the current president for targeting Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota with a criminal investigation.
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president → preach → investigation
He called it "appalling."
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He → call → it
Obama should have sat this one out at his luxurious spread on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Obama → sit → Vineyard
Lo and behold, he did the same thing when he was president.
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he → do → thing
But, of course, the probe was kept under wraps.
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probe → keep → wraps
Reporting by The New York Times reveals that Obama’s Department of Homeland Security and the FBI did a deep dive in the summer of 2016 into whether Omar entered into a sham marriage with her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to enable him to secure a green card.
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Omar → reveal → card
That investigation "found some evidence that it was fraudulent," according to the Times.
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it → find → Times
Accusations of marriage fraud have long dogged Omar, who has consistently dismissed them as politically driven and a right-wing conspiracy.
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who → dog → them
The latest investigation that culminated in a judicially ordered search of Omar’s home on October 12, 2026, reportedly encompasses not only the suspect marriage but troubling questions over whether she ran afoul of the law by using a fake name and false birth date to obtain citizenship.
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she → culminate → citizenship
A separate investigation is examining her financial transactions.
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investigation → examine → transactions
The Obama-era inquiry did not end because of insufficient evidence.
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inquiry → end → evidence
Instead, the Times divulges that it was shelved "because prosecutors concluded that the potential crime, a felony, fell outside a five-year statute of limitations."
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crime → divulge → limitations
The newspaper’s story relied on statements by current and former officials with knowledge of the first case.
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story → rely → case
That decision to mothball any legal action against Omar makes little sense, unless one factors in political favoritism by Obama and his prosecutorial cohorts.
It is true that marriage fraud is a federal felony governed by a five-year statute of limitations under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(c).
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fraud → mothball → §
However, the clock runs from the last overt act of fraud or submission of false documents, not the date of the wedding ceremony itself in 2009.
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clock → run → 2009
Taking steps to later obtain a green card would qualify as an overt act, as would document fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1546).
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fraud → take → act
So, too, would any act to cover up a sham marriage or efforts to conceal it
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act → cover → it
Indeed, it would constitute additional crimes such as conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 371) and obstruction of justice or obstruction of proceedings (18 U.S.C. §§ 1505 and 1512).
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it → constitute → proceedings
Elmi abandoned his quest for a green card and left the U.S. for London sometime in 2011 when disturbing questions reportedly arose over his application.
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questions → abandon → application
His actions and any misrepresentations associated with Omar might have brought the case within the permissible statute of limitations.
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actions → associate → limitations
Obama’s DHS and DOJ could have pursued a simpler approach under civil (not criminal) immigration fraud.
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DHS → pursue → fraud
Orchestrating a scheme to illegally obtain U.S. immigration status or benefits carries severe legal consequences.
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Orchestrating → orchestrate → consequences
If the Obama administration had chosen this logical course, it could have led to Omar’s denaturalization and subsequent deportation.
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it → choose → denaturalization
It is unclear, but curious, why this legal road was never taken.
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road → take → ?
We only know that authorities under Obama shuttered the case and buried the investigation.
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authorities → know → investigation
It has the unmistakable stench.
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It → have → stench
This makes Obama’s social media screed against President Trump even more outlandish.
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screed → make → Trump
Trump is doing what Obama did, except that Trump’s administration has expanded the Omar inquiry into areas where the former president’s prosecutors refused to go.
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prosecutors → do → areas
They should have gone there.
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They → go → ?
Obama’s harangue on X accused Trump of selectively targeting Omar without ever disclosing that his own administration investigated her first.
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administration → accuse → her
Obama also pronounced as true certain facts about Omar’s age that may not be true at all.
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that → pronounce → age
He declared with absolute confidence that she was 17 years old when she applied as a minor for derivative citizenship based on her father’s citizenship.
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she → declare → citizenship
Her autobiography and other documents undermine Obama’s claim, indicating that Omar may have been an adult of 18 years and legally ineligible for the type of citizenship that she procured.
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she → undermine → that
If she or her father made false statements or committed fraud, it would nullify her citizenship and could lead to removal from the U.S.
This is not an "unsubstantiated theory," as Obama asserts in his social media post.
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Obama → make → post
The former president accuses Trump of "intimidation" and laments that he is deploying "the full weight of the federal government" to bring down "a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president."
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she → accuse → president
Obama expressed no moral outrage when his successor, Joe Biden, targeted his political opponent with criminal indictments.
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successor → express → indictments
Going back further to his own presidency, Obama’s dirty fingerprints were all over the initial stages of the government’s damaging investigation of Trump in the phony collusion scandal.
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fingerprints → go → scandal
Obama seems to think that Americans are simpletons with anterograde amnesia.
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Americans → seem → amnesia
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The Aporia
