Republican John Nagel, who is running against Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in her Minneapolis district, claims that she has significant ties to the recent $1 billion fraud scandal in her district in new bombshell allegations.
“Where did this actually start?” Nagel said. “She passed legislation. Her legislation actually started, and it allowed people to get into Feeding Our Future. If you look at where the fraud is, it’s primarily her [5th Congressional District], the district that I’m running in against her. And it’s really odd to think that you know all the fraud just happened in a particular area, and it was a bill that she, you know, particularly put together.”
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Omar introduced the “Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students Act,” known as the MEALS Act, which allowed states to offer free meals during shutdowns through alternative means such as grab-and-go, thereby ensuring children had access to food when schools were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also simplified the criteria for eligibility. The legislation received bipartisan backing and successfully passed.
Nagel stated that individuals within Omar’s close circle benefitted from the $1 billion welfare fraud in her district. He claimed that Omar hosted events at Safari Land, a restaurant linked to the scandal, was acquainted with one of its convicted owners, and had a staff member who was also convicted.
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“If you look at the Safari Land restaurant, if you’re gonna be in politics, you need to go through the people at the Safari Land restaurant,” Nagel said. “They kind of control the politics. She had all of her fundraising things. I mean, that was sort of her hangout. That’s where she spent money, got donations.”
“There’s a lot of really deep, deep ties,” Nagel continued. “I think time will tell with the investigation. But again, there’s just too much circumstantial evidence to look at this and say, she had to have known something, or what staff member knew something?”
“A whole lot of people that were convicted donated a whole lot of money. Omar says that she gave the money back,” Nagel said. “Well, if you go into public records, she gave some money back, but there’s a whole lot more money there that she didn’t report. And I think if people were just to go through the everyday records that are out there, you’ll find out that her involvement in the money that she has is questionable.”
He added:
If she truly cared about the fraud, her name wouldn’t be attached all over to these other people. She came on and she made a statement about how terrible it is to basically steal food from children. Yeah, okay, that’s a really nice thing to say, but you have way too many people that you’re associated with that actually did that. Now she yells racism anytime somebody puts any pressure on her.
He did say that the solution was an easy one: Elect different people to Congress (preferrably Republicans).
“The things that we can do to fix this is you get yourself a new competent, honest governor, you get yourself a new honest, competent AG,” Nagel said. “We get rid of Ilhan Omar, and we put people in the state of Minnesota that actually want to do the right thing. They’re not in it for the money, they’re in it because they’re great state employees and they’re serving the public. That’s what we’re gonna have to do. You’re gonna have to entirely root the Democratic Party, and then anybody that’s been appointed to a position, we’re gonna have to root them out too, to find out if you know they’ve been letting things slide.”
Omar’s excuses have been less than convincing. She said last week: “I think what happened is that, you know, when you have these kind of new programs that are, um, designed to help people, you’re oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up — they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.”
It remains unclear whether that was intentional or merely coincidental. To date, Rep. Omar has not encountered any pressure from law enforcement or prosecutors.
