It remains to be seen what kind of evidence the Trump Justice Department has against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whose DC-area home federal officers searched on Monday.
But it’s worth emphasizing that she’s been a frequent target of Trump, who has often trained his Justice Department on his political enemies. Trump claims he wasn’t involved in the search, but it’s highly unusual for the Justice Department to execute such aggressive investigative steps so close to an election.
And the episode fills out an increasingly remarkable pattern: Leniency for congressional Republicans convicted of crimes, and
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