2026-10-18T20:20:55.412Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：派珀·赫德斯佩思·布莱克本
3小时前
发布时间：2026年10月18日，美国东部时间下午4:20
2024年12月5日，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在芝加哥发表讲话。
前总统巴拉克·奥巴马于周日称，司法部对众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔的调查“令人发指”，并表示政府正试图恐吓并驱逐特朗普总统最直言不讳的批评者之一。
“联邦政府的全部力量正被用来对付一名守法的民选官员，只因为她敢于批评总统，”奥巴马在社交媒体上写道。
这位前总统表示，最近对这位明尼苏达州民主党人位于华盛顿特区的住所进行的搜查，是为了“找出20年前根本不存在的、不知何故能成为他们指控依据的关键证据”。美国有线电视新闻网此前曾报道，此次搜查与一起移民欺诈调查有关，该调查旨在查明奥马尔的父亲在她2000年获得美国公民身份时是否谎报了她的年龄。
奥马尔试图驳斥这项调查的依据，称她1995年从索马里逃离后，于2000年合法入籍成为美国公民。
“任何一位总统，或是任何一届政府，竟愿意采取如此明目张胆的手段恐吓他人，这一事实理应激怒所有美国人，无论他们对奥马尔国会议员的政治观点持何种态度，”奥巴马在其帖文中说道。“因为如果这成为新常态，我们没有理由相信这种情况只会发生在她身上——也没有理由相信未来两党任何一位总统不会如法炮制。”
尽管政府尚未表明打算剥夺奥马尔的公民身份，但特朗普今年早些时候在Truth社交平台上发帖称，他希望看到她被送回索马里。奥马尔尚未被指控任何罪行，司法部也未披露对她不利的任何证据。奥马尔质疑上周搜查的合法性，并要求归还联邦特工没收的她的财物。
特朗普上周对记者表示，此次搜查“与我无关”。
“我认为她是个糟糕的人，但这真的应由司法部决定。我与此事毫无关联，”他说道。
除奥巴马外，其他知名民主党人士也为奥马尔辩护。众议院民主党领袖称此次搜查“令人深感不安”，并表示它“引发了严重质疑：联邦政府是否仍在持续被腐败地用作武器，对付唐纳德·特朗普的对手”。
正在寻求连任的奥马尔称此次搜查是特朗普“政治恐吓运动”的“最新升级”。“我不会被 silenced（噤声），”她上周在X平台的一份声明中说道。
对她住所的搜查在时机选择上极不寻常。通常情况下，司法部会避免在选举日60天内开展可能影响选举的公开调查活动，而此次搜查距离投票结束还不到一个月。
美国有线电视新闻网的凯特琳·波兰茨对本文亦有贡献。
Obama calls Trump administration’s investigation into Ilhan Omar ‘appalling’
2026-10-18T20:20:55.412Z / CNN
By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn
3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2026, 4:20 PM ET
Former President Barack Obama speaks in Chicago on December 5, 2024.
Erin Hooley/AP/File
Former President Barack Obama on Sunday called the Justice Department’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar “appalling,” saying the government is attempting to intimidate and deport one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics.
“The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president,” Obama wrote on social media.
The former president said the recent search of the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, DC, home was to “uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.” CNN previously reported that the search was related to an immigration fraud probe investigating whether Omar’s father lied about her age when she obtained her US citizenship in 2000.
Omar has sought to dismantle the basis of the probe, saying she became a lawfully naturalized citizen in 2000 after fleeing Somalia in 1995.
“The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views,” Obama said in his post. “Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.”
While the government has not yet indicated it will attempt to strip Omar of her citizenship, Trump said in a post to Truth Social earlier this year that he’d like to see her sent to Somalia. Omar has not been charged with a crime, and the Justice Department has not revealed any evidence against her. Omar has disputed the legality of last week’s search and demanded the return of her property seized by federal agents.
Trump told reporters last week that the search “has nothing to do with me.”
“I think she’s a terrible person, but that’s really up to the DOJ. I have nothing to do with it,” he said.
Along with Obama, other prominent Democrats have defended Omar. House Democratic leaders called the search “deeply disturbing” and said it “raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries.”
Omar, who is running for reelection, called the search “the latest escalation” in Trump’s “campaign of political intimidation.” “I will not be silenced,” she said last week in a statement on X.
The search of her home was highly unusual for its timing. Generally, the Justice Department avoids overt investigative activity that could affect an election within 60 days of Election Day, and the search occurred less than a month before voting ends.
CNN’s Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.
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