by Sharon Rondeau
(Jun. 11, 2026) — In responding to reporters’ questions from the Oval Office Thursday surrounding his signing of an executive order rescinding Biden-era fishing restrictions, President Trump raised the subject of election integrity.
He said Congress must pass the “Save America Act,” which is stalled in the Senate, to ensure accurate results in federal-level elections.
He once again called the 2020 election “rigged,” evidence of which he has suggested his administration has collected and will likely release at some point.
He then pivoted to the importation of Somali refugees into Minnesota who he said, and the Justice Department has alleged, have committed long-running fraud against the American taxpayer.
Since 2022, scores of Minnesota residents, many of Somali origin, have been charged with schemes to defraud social-service programs intended for autism, housing, medical and child-nutrition programs.
Omar was a strong proponent of funding the “Feeding Our Future” non-profit which ultimately resulted in fraudsters stealing approximately $250 million intended to provide meals to schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic while schools were closed.
FOF’s founder and executive director, Aimee Bock, was convicted in May and sentenced to 500 months in prison on “four counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of bribery, and one count of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery.”
Bock’s co-defendant, Salim Said, was also convicted “on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, four counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, eight counts of bribery, one count conspiracy to commit money laundering and five counts of money laundering,” the U.S. Justice Department reported in March 2025.
Said reportedly stole $16 million from taxpayers, New York Post reported last month.
Bock has claimed “Omar played a major role in helping continue pandemic-era meal waivers that later became central to the fraud scheme.”
Other programs allegedly abused were intended to supply services to the elderly and disabled as well as SNAP benefits, formerly known as “food stamps.”
“Look at the woman who married her brother,” Trump said, referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) without naming her as he has in the past. “She comes in and tells us how to run the United States,” citing the protections she enjoys from the U.S. Constitution, he said. Instead, he asserted, “She should be thrown out of the country.”
It was not the first time he made that assertion. Likewise, Vice President JD Vance has publicly alleged Omar “committed immigration fraud.”
Omar has denied Trump’s claim that she married her brother.
Last July, newly-sworn-in Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Division Brett A. Shumate presented to his staff five priorities of the Trump administration, the fifth of which was “denaturalization.”
Rescinding U.S. citizenship, Shumate laid out, could be pursued if it was “illegally procured” or acquired “by ‘concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.’”
Several citizen investigators’ research over a number of years has pointed to Omar having carried out a sham marriage to her blood brother, Ahmed Elmi, in 2009 which appears in the official Hennepin County marriage records.
According to the Republic of Somaliland on X, Omar’s real surname was “Elmi” “before it was changed.”
“Her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and their father, Nur Said Elmi (also known as Nur Omar), used multiple names across different countries,” the post continues. “Part of the family fled to the United Kingdom, while Ilhan Omar and others entered the United States under their father’s assumed name, ‘Omar.’ These name changes and split identities were used to conceal the father’s true war crimes and identity.”
As The Post & Email has reported following the discovery shared by then-DFL primary challenger AJ Kern, Omar has never proved herself a naturalized citizen of the United States, a constitutional requirement for all members of Congress. She is currently serving her fourth term in Congress and reportedly filed for re-election in November.
“I won Minnesota three times,” Trump claimed, referring to the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. In 2020, he has often said, his victory was thwarted by significant voter fraud.
Of Minnesota’s current leadership, he said, “They’re all very corrupt people.”
Updated, 7:04 a.m. EDT, June 12, 2026.