“I will not be silenced”: Ilhan Omar calls search of her Washington home political intimidation and accuses Trump of years of smear campaigns

U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar said Monday she was safe after federal agents searched her Washington-area home, describing the search as an attempt to target political opponents and weaponize federal law enforcement. The Justice Department said agents executed a court-authorized warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation but gave no further details.

Omar said President Donald Trump had targeted her for ten years with what she called baseless lies and smear campaigns, and described the search as the latest escalation in a campaign of political intimidation. “I will not be silenced,” she said. The Associated Press reported that Vice President JD Vance had previously signaled an investigation into immigration-fraud allegations involving Omar, which she has denied; the Justice Department did not specify whether Monday’s search concerned those allegations.