Trump revives the Omar probe Obama's FBI opened in 2016, calls her claim to constitutional rights "arrogance"

…(cont) Then the file gets a second career. On October 12, CBS News reported the revived federal probe centers on her childhood immigration paperwork — not the marriage now, the paperwork she would have been a child for. On October 13, immigration authorities raided her home. On October 18, the border czar said on Fox News that the congresswoman could "of course" be denaturalized and deported, the first time the administration put those two words next to her name on the record. Obama, whose FBI opened the thing, called it appalling. By October 23 she was on the record with the plainest sentence in the archive: my name has always been Ilhan Omar.

Here is where the paperwork outlasts the party that produced it. Fox News reported this week that nearly 40 House Democrats declined to sign the letter asking to end the probe. The file has now survived three administrations and about forty co-signers.

Which brings us to Texas, and to the clause I would like the class to read twice. At a rally, the president described a conversation: "She goes, 'I have constitutional rights.' The arrogance." All together now — the arrogance. The proposition on the floor is that a United States citizen, elected to the House, invoking the Bill of Rights, is being arrogant about it. I have read the file. The Constitution is not among the documents it disputes.

Fox's legal commentator filed the twist the same day: the Obama administration's DHS and FBI started it. That is offered as exoneration, and flatly stated it is a ten-year-old inquiry that produced no charge under two presidents, reopened by a third in the week before an election, now cited as evidence the third one is being reasonable. The New York Post spent the same day filing the congresswoman under people who believe everyone is obsessed with them, sixteen days after federal agents were inside her house.

Five days to the vote. The file is in excellent health.