FBI Investigated Ilhan Omar’s Alleged Marriage to Brother, Referred to ICE and DOE

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‘The facts describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in American history…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The New York Post and The Blaze confirmed that the FBI has actively investigated allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., married her brother in order to grant him a green card into the United States and commit other types of fraud.

The rumors began prior to Omar’s election to Congress, but she and her media allies long denied them as salacious scandal-mongering by political opponents.

However, those questions resurfaced in June 2019 after the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board revealed campaign-finance irregularities involving Omar’s use of campaign funds for travel and personal expenses—likely related to a separate affair she was conducting with a public-relations contractor at the time.

A deeper investigation into her financial records revealed that she had filed her 2014 and 2015 taxes with her first/third husband Ahmed Hirsi, while officially married to second husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is believed to be her sibling.

Omar—who initially had been married to Hirsi under common-law, Islamic custom—later remarried him officially under U.S. law.

However, last October, she filed for divorce from Hirsi—understood to be the father of her three children—amid reports that she had been conducting an affair with Tim Mynett, a PR rep for the left-wing political-consulting firm E Street, with whom she had been working. The divorce was finalized in November.

That same month, the Post reported, as Omar’s complicated love affairs once again came under scrutiny, the FBI conducted an hours-long meeting in Minnesota “with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omar’s 2009 marriage [to Elmi].”

While reasonable speculation might point to Hirsi as the concerned party, the Post gave no indication whether Omar’s estranged on-again, off-again husband might be behind it.

Ilhan Omar May Have Married Her Brother to Get Him a Green Card
Ilhan Omar poses with a group including Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who some have said is her brother. / IMAGE: Instagram screenshot via AlphaNewsMN

According to The Blaze’s David Steinberg, the FBI has now referred the case on Omar and Elmi to several other agencies, including the Department of Education’s inspector general.

The DOE will investigate whether the two lovebirds (regardless of whether they were or were not related) may have used the marriage to commit student-loan fraud at North Dakota State University.

That investigation also ties to whether Omar perjured herself in a signed statement that she had lost all contact with Elmi, despite dozens of social-media posts to the contrary.

The FBI also turned over material to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate whether Elmi—a British citizen—had defrauded immigration authorities. Omar, a Somali refugee who arrived in the U.S. as a child, is a naturalized American citizen.

Omar has frequently attacked ICE in her pro-open-border rhetoric and called for its dissolution.

Steinberg said the evidence in the case against the two supposed siblings was overwhelming.

“To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in American history,” he said.

Ironically, the timeline of Omar’s alleged spree of felonies overlapped with now-debuked investigations into whether President Donald Trump had colluded with foreign agents prior to his 2016 election.

The FBI’s handling of the two cases presented a study in contrasts—and partisan hypocrisy on the Left—said Steinberg.

While pursuing Trump as the result of “an unverifiable claim, from a foreign diplomat, of a drunken remark by a low-level Trump staffer,” disgraced former FBI Director James Comey “never did find stronger evidence,” Steinberg said.

“Yet the Democratic Party and supportive media hardly paused, for three years, covering this investigation” into Omar’s abuses, he added.

According to the Post, the commission of marriage fraud alone—discounting the alleged campaign-finance issues, tax fraud, student-load fraud and immigration fraud—could result in a felony carrying a prison sentence of up to five years and a fine of up to $250,000.

The investigating agencies refused to confirm the status or existence of any probes. Omar has continued to dismiss them as “disgusting lies.”

Democrats Don’t Know What to Do About Bernie

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‘We need a nominee who draws them to the Democratic column…’

Bernie Says He's Eyeing Female VP Candidate, Right After Saying Gender Shouldn't Be a Factor
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Establishment Democrats fear a 2016 repeat as presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., gains in Iowa and New Hampshire polls.

Democrats are now scrambling to find a way to stop Sanders from becoming the Democratic nominee, but as of yet, there is no solidified, “organized effort” to hold Sanders back, said Matt Bennett, co-founder of the Democratic group Third Way.

“People were laughing at Trump when he came down the escalator and they kept laughing at him for way too long, until ‘holy crap’ he’s winning primaries,” Bennett told Politico. “What I fear is one will emerge too late, as with what happened with Trump.”

Many Democrats worry that a Sanders candidacy would result in a Trump victory in 2020.

“Swing states have a higher concentration of swing voters,” said Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to President Barack Obama. “We need a nominee who draws them to the Democratic column.”

Sanders’s campaign would not do that Emanuel suggested, citing Sanders’s attraction among “infrequent voters.”

Sanders’s Senate colleague and presidential rival Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., agreed that Sanders should not be atop the ticket.

“I think Sen. Sanders’s idea of kicking 149 million Americans off their current health insurance in four years is wrong,” Klobuchar said on Sunday.

“That’s why I don’t think he should be leading the ticket,” she continued. “I think I should be leading the ticket because my ideas are much more in sync with bold ways of getting things done.”

Right now, the Democratic Party isn’t sure what to do. Either they distance the party from Sanders and risk repeating their 2016 mistake, or they do nothing and watch as he gains momentum.

Former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton didn’t help last week when she chose the former route, declaring that “nobody likes” Sanders and that the Democratic Party cannot choose a nominee who hasn’t gotten anything done.

But Bennett said the latter option—doing nothing—won’t work, either.

“They let him get away with murder,” he said, arguing that the media criticizes Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., much more than Sanders. “They let him bluster past hard questions.”

Cincinnati Judge Under Fire For Admitting He Regularly Works w/ ICE

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‘Courthouses are sometimes the only location that ICE can expect a fugitive/criminal alien to appear at a scheduled time…’

Cincinnati Judge Under Fire For Admitting He Regularly Works w/ICE
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A Cincinnati judge is facing criticism for saying he regularly alerts Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers if he believes a defendant is in the country illegally, according to local news outlet WCPO.

The judge, Robert Ruehlman, told WCPO that he calls ICE “10 to 20 times a year” in the Common Pleas Court in Hamilton County, Ohio.

“They speak Spanish, they’re charged with carrying a lot of drugs, and they’re not from here,” he explained. “It’s pretty clear they’re illegal immigrants, you know, and if it turns out they are a citizen, then there’s no harm, no foul.”

Several liberal activist groups immediately claimed Ruelhman engaged in racially profiling and alleged that Ruelhman makes his courtroom less safe by introducing a “fear of deportation.”

But Ruelhman said a fear of deportation has “never come up,” and that it’s “just a red herring thrown in by the people against it who think that we should allow people that are here illegally to stay.”

Ruehlman acknowledged that his believe in the integrity of federal immigration laws guided his decision-making.

“I call ICE in a minute. I have no problem calling ICE,” Ruehlman said. “I do not think every judge does that. I think I’m the only judge that does that, but I do. I think it’s important.”

Ruehlman explained that he uses “common sense” to determine whether a defendant is an illegal immigrant, and then he said he calls ICE and says, “‘I think we have an illegal immigrant here.’ And they confirm it. I give them the name and birthdate and where they’re from. They run them. They say, ‘Yeah.’ Then they go to the jail and they put a holder on them.”

ICE spokesperson Khaalid Walls said Ruehlman’s willingness to work with ICE is refreshing given the choice “many law enforcement agencies” have made to “no longer honor ICE detainers.”

“Courthouses are sometimes the only location that ICE can expect a fugitive/criminal alien to appear at a scheduled time, and courthouse visitors are typically screened upon entry to search for weapons and other contraband,” Walls explained. “So, the safety risks for the arresting ICE officers and for the arrestee are substantially diminished.”

Alternatively, he noted, the obstruction by local law-enforcement and courtrooms to ICE’s efforts endangered not only the agents and the alleged illegals, but also otheres within the community.

“When ICE officers have to go out into the community to proactively locate these criminal aliens, regardless of the precautions they take, it needlessly puts our personnel and potentially innocent bystanders in harm’s way,” Walls said.

Obama: Trump's Energy Policies Make Climate Change 'Almost Impossible' to Solve

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‘You can lecture about climate change but he’s just trying to get to work…’

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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump’s energy policies  on Jan. 23, arguing that they make climate change an “almost impossible” problem to solve.
Speaking to the Economic Club of Canada and the Global Institute for Conscious Economics at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, Obama highlighted how the Trump administration has overturned much of his legacy, CTV News reported.
“I instituted higher fuel-efficiency standards on cars, and the subsequent administration has now tried to actively reverse them,” he said. “If we can’t even do that, where we’re going to say, ‘We’re not going to drive gas guzzlers’ when other countries don’t even have cars, then it’s going to be almost impossible to solve the problem.”
Obama praised the initiative of young people in advocating for government-mandated solutions to climate change, while stating that a “surge of energy” will be necessary to prevent further carbon dioxide emissions.
“Which is why you have somebody like a Greta Thunberg who gets so much traction,” he said. “Because she speaks for a generation that is going to have to deal with this mess in a way that somebody like me, who’s 58, is not going to have to deal with it.”
Obama said environmentalists should listen to the concerns of average citizens when discussing the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, Newsweek reported.
He told a hypothetical story about the problems with addressing climate change.
“The reason it’s hard is because there’s a guy somewhere in Canada just like there is in the United States who is a good man, who has to drive 50 miles every day to his job to support his family,” Obama said. “And he’s got an old pickup truck, and he can’t afford a Prius. There’s no mass transit to his job. And gas prices matter to him because it might make the difference between whether or not he can save for his kid’s college education.”
“You can lecture about climate change but he’s just trying to get to work,” he continued. “And if you are dismissive of his legitimate specific concerns about supporting his family, then he is going to tune you out, regardless of the science of climate change.”
Obama said that developed countries such as the United States will have to assist developing countries so that they can “leapfrog our development models.”
If developing countries can bypass their own industrial eras, then they will have to burn fewer fossil fuels.
“We have to figure out how do we give them the opportunity to enjoy a reasonable standard of living while still preserving the environment,” he said.
He cited China as a developing nation that is environmentally conscious, but the Communist nation is increasing its coal usage.
“The Chinese government, even though it’s not a democracy, became sensitive enough to the potential political instability of this environmental crisis that they said, ‘It makes sense for us to sign up,'” he said, in opposition to the facts.

‘Squad’ Member Thuggishly Threatens to ‘Educate’ DeVos on Abortion and Slavery

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‘I invite you to come by the Hill and say this to my face…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., offered to “educate” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after DeVos compared the fight against abortion to the fight against slavery.

DeVos made the comparison while speaking at a Colorado Christian University event this week, saying that the Trump administration’s fight to restrict abortion reminded her of former President Abraham Lincoln’s fight to end slavery.

“[Lincoln] too contended with the pro-choice arguments of his day. They suggested that a state’s choice to be slave or to be free had no moral question in it,” DeVos said, according to the Colorado Times Recorder.

“Well, President Lincoln reminded those pro-choicers that is a vast portion of the American people that do not look upon that matter as being this very little thing,” she continued. “They look upon it as a vast moral evil.”

DeVos went on to say that Lincoln was “right about the slavery ‘choice’ then, and he would be right about the life ‘choice’ today.”

After facing backlash for her comments, DeVos’s office clarified that she did “not compare abortion to slavery.” Rather, “she made clear that the ‘choice’ debate over state’s rights was as morally bankrupt as the abortion argument about the so-called ‘right to privacy’ is,” said an Education Department spokesman.

Pressley, one of four members in the radical leftist ‘Squad’ of freshman congresswomen, has been a vocal pro-choice advocate since entering Congress last year. She has supported radical policies, such as the ROE Act, which would force health insurers to provide coverage for abortion “regardless of income or immigration status,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Trump Lawyer: House Dems Have ‘Opened the Door’ to Biden Subpoenas

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‘If there are new witnesses to be called, you would have to start with the ones who were not called to start with…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Senate leaders from both sides sought to re-calibrate their stances regarding new witnesses after House impeachment managers on Thursday appeared to bolster Republicans’ argument that former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter should be subpoenaed.

“What I don’t understand is for the last five hours it’s been a lot about Joe Biden and Burisma. They kind of opened the door,” said Trump co-counsel Jay Sekulow on Thursday, following a lengthy presentation on the Ukraine scandal by Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas.

Despite insisting that there was not a “scintilla” of evidence implicating the Bidens in any wrongdoing, Garcia’s argument left several holes unaddressed.

Central to Trump’s likely defense—set to begin Saturday—is the contention that he was justified in asking newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during a July 25 phone call, to resume the “dormant” Burisma probes.

According to Breitbart, Garcia’s very use of the word “dormant” marked a concession from Democrats, who previously had maintained, falsely, that the Bidens had been exonerated by the Ukrainian investigations.

Former Ukrainian prosecutor–general Viktor Shokin has affirmed under sworn affidavit that he was pressured by the Petro Poroshenko administration in Ukraine and the Obama administration in the U.S.  to drop the Burisma investigations.

Some reports also have indicated that Shokin had recently conducted a series of raids on Burisma-related properties immediately prior to a lobbying campaign by well-connected Burisma “consultants”—Hunter Biden among them—to solicit the U.S. State Department’s support against the investigations.

A month later, in April 2016, Joe Biden visited the country and threatened to withhold a billion-dollar loan guarantee if Shokin wasn’t fired. He admitted to the quid-pro-quo extortion in a 2018 panel discussion with the Council on Foreign Relations.

Both Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, and Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham, R-SC, two of the leading voices for their respective parties, seemed to buckle in their earlier stances over whether the prospect of testimony from the Bidens could open the door to new evidence being introduced in the impeachment trial.

Schumer has sought, unsuccessfully, to gain the votes of at least four centrist Republican senators for his proposed amendments to the trial rules, which would allow the introduction of new witnesses and the admission of new evidentiary documents beyond what the House was able to obtain in its investigation.

While some GOP senators have indicated already that they would support hearing new evidence after the opening arguments, Schumer claimed in an MSNBC interview on Thursday that the odds were against it, Breitbart reported.

[H]ow it will have to happen is not one person doing it, but a couple of them, when they talk privately say, maybe we should do it and get a group together of five or six or seven, and they do it together,” he said.

“Is that certain to happen? Not at all,” he continued. “Is it more [likely] than not? I’d have to say no. … But do we have a chance, and if we keep fighting as hard as we’ve been fighting, might those chances improve? Yes.”

Graham, meanwhile, reaffirmed in a press conference Friday that he opposed new witnesses and sought a speedy resolution to the trial but saw compelling reason for the Bidens to be further investigated.

“I don’t want to call Hunter Biden. I don’t wanna call Joe Biden,” he said. “I want somebody to look at that when this is done.”

Graham said he would assume that role in the Judiciary Committee if nobody else did.

“I think I’ve got enough from the public record to believe that [Democrats’] assertion [that no wrongdoing occurred] falls short,” he said.

However, after media continued to press the matter of calling additional impeachment witnesses, such as former national security adviser John Bolton, Graham appeared to backpedal and embrace the possibility.

“If there are new witnesses to be called, you would have to start with the ones who were not called to start with,” he said, noting that Democrats in the House had blocked a prior GOP-led resolution to subpoena the Bidens.

Schumer said earlier in the week that any sort of bargain allowing Hunter Biden’s testimony in return for Bolton’s was “off the table.”

Rural Va. Counties Seriously Consider Joining West Virginia after Blue Takeover

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‘These tensions have been compounded by a perception of contempt on the part of the government at Richmond…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The far-left takeover of Virginia led by racist Gov. Ralph Northam has made some counties in the commonwealth seriously consider packing their bags.

Outraged over extreme gun-confiscation proposals and other radical measures since the state’s General Assembly flipped blue last November (with heavy assistance from mega-donors outside the state) at least one of Virginia’s rural jurisdictions has actively discussed joining West Virginia.

According to PJ Media, Frederick County, Virginia—about 70 miles west of Washington, DC—still has an open invitation from the 1800s to join, and some members of the county’s board of supervisors have expressed support.

Meanwhile, 40 of 100 West Virginia House delegates have signed on in support of HCR 8, a bill that would allow the Mountaineer State to accept any counties and towns seeking to make a ‘Vaxit’ due to irreconcilable differences, said Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard on Tuesday.

“We’re starting to get some phone calls from friends on the border who say these folks want to leave,” said West Virginia Del. Gary Howell, the bill’s sponsor.

What may have begun as a joke or an internet meme “has turned into a real thing” due to Democrats’ sustained assault on citizens’ basic constitutional rights, Howell said.

Despite thousands showing up at a highly publicized rally in the Virginia capital of Richmond on Monday, the state legislature proceeded to pass three of its controversial gun-control measures.

Other alarming proposals in Virginia would loosen abortion laws, support the archaic Equal Rights Amendment, allow the removal of many of the state’s Confederate monuments, grant unfettered voting rights to convicted felons and alter election laws to benefit Democrats, who could conceivably secure permanent majorities in the former red state.

But the Left’s cavalier attitude toward gun-rights has been the deal-breaker, with the vast majority of Virginia counties threatening to become 2nd Amendment sanctuaries in civil disobedience of the legislature.

Northam and Virginia’s attorney general, Mark Herring, responded by earmarking a quarter-million dollars from the state’s recent budget surplus for additional “corrections” funding to jail those in defiance.

Howell’s legislation would invoke the same law that allowed West Virginia to split from Virginia in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, when the two regions were sharply divided over matters like the abolition of slavery and secession from the Union.

Citing specifically the infringements upon the Second Amendment, the bill says, “we extend an invitation to any constituent county or city of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be admitted to the body politic of the State of West Virginia … with the consent of a majority of the voters of such county or city voting upon such proposition.”

It also holds to task the contemptuous treatment that liberals in Virginia’s urban pockets—areas such as Northern Virginia, where many DC swamp-dwellers reside—have displayed toward its more rural regions.

“These tensions have been compounded by a perception of contempt on the part of the government at Richmond for the differences in certain fundamental political and societal principles which prevail between the varied counties and cities of that Commonwealth,” notes the bill.

The bill does not explicitly state that the counties in question must be contiguous, but at least one Facebook user’s proposal, for a “West Virginia Beach” extending its eastern boundary along the entire southern border of Virginia, had garnered more than 5,000 shares.

Loretta Lynch, Jeff Flake Praise Impeachment at Purdue University’s MLK Dialogue

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‘A university can serve as the forum to let ideas come out and let everyone think about them, and then make their own decisions…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A discussion at Purdue University on “Democracy, Civility, and Freedom of Expression” featuring a phony Republican and a corrupt ex-attorney general predictably promoted radical leftist talking points.

The public university in West Lafayette, Ind., hosted the dialogue on Wednesday—between former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch—in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The talk was organized by the school’s Orwellian-sounding Division of Diversity and Inclusion.

“We are incredibly excited to focus our semester-long efforts on promoting and exploring what it means to live and behave civilly in our democracy,” said John Gates, vice provost for diversity and inclusion, in a press release prior to the event.

“It’s never been more important that we try to listen to and understand one another and to offer respect to those who may have differing opinions from us,” he said. “That’s what our democracy was built on.”

Those ‘differing opinions’ from two notorious Trump-bashing public figures ranged from whether the recent impeachment of President Donald Trump was great to whether it was just good, reported the Journal & Courier.

“I’m grateful that we have a country where this can happen, and where the executive branch may not like it, but they’re subject to it, and that isn’t the case in other countries,” said Flake, who was present in the Senate gallery for the opening of the trial.

“The institutions by and large are holding up,” Flake claimed. “They’ve been tested like never before in certain areas, but they’re holding, and that’s gratifying to see.”

The two also debated whether GOP supported voter ID laws—designed to maintain election integrity—were racist or whether they were simply voter suppression.

Red-state Indiana is one of many that require such laws, which Democrats have attacked by claiming they violate the ’60s-era Voting Rights Act.

“Sometimes, it can be challenging to think that the issues [Martin Luther King Jr.] fought for then, we are still fighting for now,” Lynch said. “… [W]e can look to how he met those challenges and work on those issues.”

Rather than challenge Lynch’s assertion, Flake—whose Trump attacks ultimately cost him his seat in the Senate—concurred that “the work is never done.”

Republican proponents argue that IDs are readily available to U.S. citizens and the laws are intended as a safeguard to prevent non-citizens from mistakenly voting, as well as discouraging citizens who may act in bad faith from attempting to commit felonious voter fraud.

The Purdue talk came on the same day as neighboring Illinois, a blue-dominated “sanctuary state,” admitted that hundreds of non-citizens had been inadvertently registered by a supposed computer error at the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

Another point of agreement between the two ostensibly opposed speakers was that the nation’s institutions of higher education were a fantastic place to get a wide array of diverse viewpoints while engaging in civil discourse.

The Journal & Courier said that, in November, Purdue students staged mass protests after an off-campus CVS requested immigration paperwork from a Puerto Rican student in order to provide a regulated medication.

The outraged students demanded that Purdue President Mitch Daniels denounce the incident, while Gates’s diversity office used the occasion to conduct a “town hall” debating whether Daniels hated all students or just illegal immigrants.

Flake said his own upbringing in the small town of Snowflake, Ariz., was somewhat insular prior to his matriculation at Utah’s Brigham Young University.

“The university experience is great,” he said. “Purdue is certainly taking full advantage of that for its students.”

Lynch agreed, commending the school’s openness to dialogue.

“People here deal in the currency of ideas all the time, and so it can provide a safe space to have some of those conversations that can be challenging, that can be difficult and can be hard to have,” she said.

“A university can serve as the forum to let ideas come out and let everyone think about them, and then make their own decisions,” she added.

Lynch recently has been in the headlines amid the ongoing Justice Department probe into FBI misconduct and allegations that they colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee in an effort to fix the 2016 election.

The DOJ recently rattled leftists at The New York Times after revealing that it was investigating a leaked Russian memo about an exchange between then-DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Leonard Benardo, a top official with leftist mega-donor George Soros‘s Open Society Foundation.

According to the memo—discovered by Dutch intelligence, who relayed it to the FBI under then-Director James Comey—Schultz assured Benardo that Lynch would not allow the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified State Department emails to result in prosecution of the Democratic presidential candidate.

Lynch, overseeing the Justice Department at the time, was later forced to recuse herself from the case after a secretive tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton became a public scandal. However, she continued to exert pressure on Comey to drop the investigation.

Anita Hill: Time is ‘Up’ for Joe Biden to Apologize

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‘Here is what I want now. … What are you going to do about it?’…

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Anita Hill testifies before the Senate in Oct. 1991./IMAGE: C-SPAN via Youtube

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Anita Hill said Thursday that it’s too late for an apology from presidential hopeful Joe Biden for how he handled Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearing in 1991.

“The statute of limitations for his apology is up,” Hill said at a University of Iowa event on sexual harassment, according to Buzzfeed News.

An audience member then asked Hill if it’s difficult to hear Biden express regret for his role in the process, but Hill said she doesn’t care.

“Here is what I want now. … What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do today? Will you promise as leader of this country … would you promise to use all of your energy to address the problem as it happened and to prevent it from happening to another generation? That’s what I want to hear,” Hill continued. “And I not only want to hear from him, I want to hear from every one of them who want to be the leader of this country.”

Hill accused Thomas of sexual harassment after he was nominated to the Supreme Court.

Her allegations were not corroborated or proven.

At the time, Biden chaired th Senate Judiciary Committee, and he’s recently been criticized by leftists for how he treated Hill during her testimony before the Senate.

Biden has also expressed regret, saying last year that he wished he “could have done something.”

Hill dismissed Biden’s apology and vowed to “hold Biden accountable” during the 2020 Democratic primary.

“I cannot be satisfied by simply saying ‘I’m sorry for what happened to you,'” she told the New York Times.

Afterward, Hill claimed she was criticized “because I didn’t immediately open my arms and embrace him [and say], ‘Ok, I forgive you.’”

“One of the reasons I didn’t was because I didn’t think it was enough,” she added.

WATCH: Angry Father Confronts Pocahontas About Plans to Forgive Student Loans

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‘So…those of us who did the right thing get screwed?’…

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A father confronted presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren about her student loan debt forgiveness plan at a campaign event in Iowa this week.

“I just wanted to ask one question. My daughter is getting out of school. I’ve saved all my money. She doesn’t have any student loans. Am I going to get my money back?” the man asked.

“Of course not,” Warren replied, shaking her head.

“So you’re going to pay for people who didn’t save any money and those of us who did the right thing get screwed?” he asked.

Warren insisted that no one would be “screwed,” but the father disagreed.

“Of course we would,” he explained. “My buddy had fun, bought a car, went on vacations. I saved my money,” he said. “He made more than I did. But I worked a double shift, worked extra — my daughter worked since she was 10 … We did the right thing, and we get screwed.”

Warren has vowed to eliminate student loan debt on day one of her presidency via executive order to “offer relief” to the 42 million young Americans saddled with debt.

Her plan would cancel up to $50,000 for households making under $100,000, which would wipe out student loan debt for nearly 75% of borrowers.

Those with a household income above $250,000 would not be eligible for student loan debt cancellation.

As this father noted, Warren’s plan neglects those who have already paid off their student loan debt, and those who will take on student loan debt in the future.

Warren’s plan would only apply to those with student loan debt on the day she signs her executive order.

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