President Donald Trump is pressing the Justice Department to launch an investigation following the release of a bombshell video exposing an alleged pay-for-play ballot-harvesting scheme linked to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and others.
“This is totally illegal. Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not??” Trump tweeted early Monday.
“We will win Minnesota because of her, and law enforcement. Saved Minneapolis & Iron O Range!” he added.
As he opened the video clip, O’Keefe said that Liban Mohamed collected hundreds of ballots mostly from Somali immigrants to help his brother, City Councilman Jamal Osman, get elected.
“Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these, my car is full. All these are for Jamal Osman… We got 300 today for Jamal Osman only,” Osman is heard saying in the video.