Convicted felon President Trump’s regime earlier this year indicted a Somali man, Abdullahi Mohamed, who once briefly served as a bodyguard to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, hoping to “flip” him on Omar, the New York Times reports. That simple description belies just how fucking stupid the story is, where a guy who worked for her for a few days during a trip to Somalia was interrogated on whether he knew if Omar had actually married her brother, among other shit.
The dumbest part is either the fact that Mohamed isn’t in the US – the Times spoke to him over the phone while he’s in Nairobi – or the basis of the “case”: He applied for a green card last year and was asked whether he’d had “any interactions with any government officials or politicians in the United States.” Mohamed, whose English isn’t great, said no, thus making him criminally liable for lying to a US government official, punishable by up to five years in prison. Misunderstanding a question during an immigration interview is almost never prosecuted, especially not when the option is to just deny the goddamned green card. Mohamed’s defense lawyer Bruce Rivers said federal prosecutors told him the case was “100 percent being run by 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my almost 28 years practicing law in federal court,” said Rivers.