{"id":2687948,"date":"2026-10-19T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barack-obamas-attempt-to-defend-ilhan-omar-crashes-and-burns-when-his-own-past-gets-brought-up\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:11:00","slug":"barack-obamas-attempt-to-defend-ilhan-omar-crashes-and-burns-when-his-own-past-gets-brought-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barack-obamas-attempt-to-defend-ilhan-omar-crashes-and-burns-when-his-own-past-gets-brought-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama&#8217;s Attempt to Defend Ilhan Omar Crashes and Burns When His Own Past Gets Brought Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarack-obamas-attempt-to-defend-ilhan-omar-crashes-and-burns-when-his-own-past-gets-brought-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2687948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>No one can deny reality like a Democrat \u2014 and Barack Obama might be the biggest denier of them all.<\/p>\n<p>The 44th president decided to weigh in Sunday to defend Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar with a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/2111819687524774170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media post<\/a> pretending outrage at a federal investigation targeting the militant from Minnesota and accusing President Donald Trump of abusing his powers to persecute a political enemy.<\/p>\n<p>But the backfire proved that Americans have better memories than Obama appears to think.<\/p>\n<p>In a Sunday post on the social media platform X that had garnered more than 11 million views by Monday afternoon, Obama branded the Omar investigation \u201cappalling,\u201d and claimed that simply presenting the facts of the case would convince his readers, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">@BarackObama The judge who signed the warrant to raid Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s DC home is a Hillary Clinton donor who clerked for an Obama appointee. That fact alone demolishes the left\u2019s claim that this is some Trump-orchestrated political hit job.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blake (@IamBlake19) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IamBlake19\/status\/2111823652173840428?\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But there are a few \u201cfacts\u201d about Omar that Obama omitted:<\/p>\n<p>He stated point-blank that the now-congresswoman received her citizenship through the naturalization of her father; she was 17 when it took place. However, Omar\u2019s age in 2000 when her father was naturalized is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-ilhan-omars-staff-changed-birthdate-official-records-citizenship-may-fraudulent-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually a matter of dispute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More tellingly, credible accusations have been raised about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/expert-ilhan-omars-dad-never-refugee-actually-commander-military-killed-200k-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whether her father lied<\/a> on his naturalization application to hide the fact that he was a leader in a bloodthirsty Somali dictatorship that murdered an estimated 200,000 before being forced from power.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why didn\u2019t you mention the fact that Ilhan Omar\u2019s father Nur Omar Mohamed didn\u2019t disclose on his asylum application that he was not fleeing the violent genocidal regime in Somalia, he was part of it? If he lied on his asylum application that is fraud, which makes Ilhan\u2019s status\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Liz_Wheeler\/status\/2111993261946507374?\">October 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In either case, Omar could well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/legal-expert-jonathan-turley-says-ilhan-omar-line-denaturalization-immigration-laws-clear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lose her naturalized citizenship<\/a>. But those are apparently not even legal niceties to Obama \u2014 a former constitutional law professor, for heaven\u2019s sake \u2014 since he doesn\u2019t even consider them worth mentioning.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse is the hectoring-lecturing tone he takes about an administration targeting political opponents \u2014 when his own White House spent eight years doing exactly that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">@BarackObama https:\/\/t.co\/OdjYH7rvnW<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/profstonge\/status\/2112001157925101867?\">October 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For all his preening pretension, Obama might well have set the modern standard for misuse of the powers of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>His administration used the IRS to target conservative political groups \u2014 a fact not even denied by the IRS. In fact, it expressed its \u201csincere apology\u201d in 2017, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/27\/560308997\/irs-apologizes-for-aggressive-scrutiny-of-conservative-groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a> reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>(Given that Obama had been safely re-elected to a second term and was already out of the White House by then, conservatives can take the sincerity of that apology with any amount of salt they wish.)<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-history-lesson-claiming-never-attacked-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">administration spied on<\/a> members of the news media \u2014 most notably now-former Fox News reporter James Rosen and now-former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson.<\/p>\n<p>And it was in the waning hours of the Obama administration that the slow-motion coup of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nowhere-hide-gabbards-doc-dump-100-percent-reveals-obama-personally-ordered-russia-collusion-hoax-document-originated\/\">\u201cRussia collusion\u201d was born<\/a> \u2014 a \u201cscandal\u201d directed by the outgoing president against the incoming president in a truly appalling betrayal of American history and tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just the more glaring examples of the hypocrisy evident in pretty much every word of Obama\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>And Americans remember them in ways Obama might regret. The post had received more than 54,000 comments by Monday afternoon \u2014 it took a good long look to find <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/micyoung75\/status\/2111826394216882661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one that agreed<\/a> with Obama. Deadline pressures preclude a screening of all 54,000, but it\u2019s safe to say this is a fair sampling of the rest:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Barack Obama, the man who used the full weight of the intelligence agencies and Justice Department to spy on Donald Trump and push a fabricated Russia hoax in an attempt to undermine his presidency, now wants to lecture everyone about the weaponization of justice. The man is so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TMK (@themagaking) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/themagaking\/status\/2111828060898996497?\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FLASHBACK: Obama\u2019s IRS singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for heightened scrutiny based on their names and political positions, delayed tax-exempt applications for years and demanded unnecessary donor information. The IRS ultimately admitted wrongdoing and apologized. Obama insisted there was \u201cnot even a smidgen of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Ricciardella (@WillRicci) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillRicci\/status\/2111839146058691001?\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Except you, having never really left DC after your term, willfully and maliciously went after a sitting POTUS with complete lies, weaponizing the entire judiciary towards him. Do you think we, the American people don\u2019t see or remember the precedent you, yourself set? Now you can\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Margie the Average American (@Margare51775614) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Margare51775614\/status\/2112266638418387197?\">October 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dan-bongino-announces-returning-airwaves-fbi-departure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Bongino<\/a> summed it up well \u2014 as he often does:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This cannot be real. This petty tyrant lecturing us about \u201cAmerican democracy\u201d is like being lectured by a screaming five-year-old about self-control. Sit down Mr. President, everyone knows who you really are.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dbongino\/status\/2111864861281952076?\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis petty tyrant lecturing us about \u2018American democracy\u2019 is like being lectured by a screaming five-year-old about self-control,\u201d Bongino wrote. \u201cSit down, Mr. President, everyone knows who you really are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Americans who remember the Obama years the way they happened know full well who the former president is \u2014 and the historical record bears it out.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a reality Democrats can try to deny. 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