– Look how evil their nation is. It's not even a nation. It's just people going around killing each other. Look, these Somalis have taken billions of dollars out of our country. They have Congresswoman Ilhan Omar who they say married her brother. I'm trying to deny it now, but there's really no denying it because it just happened. She shouldn't be allowed to be a congresswoman and I'm sure people are watching. She should be kicked out of our country, Trump said.
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– Here you go [w Minnesocie] incompetent governor, you have a corrupt governor. [Tim] Walz should be ashamed of himself. This beautiful land, this beautiful state is now hell and these Somalis should get out of here. They destroyed our country, now they only complain, feel free to complain. Omar keeps going on and on about how “the Constitution gives her something.” Go back to your country and understand your constitution. She only complains about this country, and without it she probably wouldn't be alive, he added.
Trump's anti-Somali tirade
Donald Trump attacked Somalis for the first time on Tuesday. – I'll be honest with you, okay? Someone will say, “Oh, that's politically incorrect.” I don't care. I don't want them in our country. Their country is not good for good reasons. Their country stinks and we don't want them in our country, he added. He noted that the same could be said about other countries. The president did not mention them by name.
—Ilhan Omar [lewicowa kongresmenka pochodząca z Somalii] is garbage. Her friends are garbage. These are not people who work. These are not people who say: let's go, let's go, let's make this place great. These are people who do nothing but complain, he said.
Trump thus referred to the discovery of multi-million-dollar fraud and extortion of social benefits by entities associated with Somali immigrants in Minnesota. Although the case has been known for years, it recently gained notoriety thanks to articles in the New York Times and the right-wing press. So far, charges have been filed in cases totaling more than $1 billion, according to federal prosecutor Joseph Thompson. They concern, among others: providing fictitious social services.
Trump has stepped up his rhetoric against immigrants from “third world” countries — and on Tuesday he also talked about “fourth world” countries after the attack on two National Guard soldiers in Washington by an immigrant from Afghanistan. In recent days he announced, among others: a total ban on migration from these countries, as well as deprivation of citizenship of naturalized Americans who “undermine the peace”.
