杨丹旭：任泽平从经济学家变成了网红

2026年10月28日 05:00

当“经济学家”认证被平台撤销，流量与专业身份的边界正被重新审视。这场围绕财经网红的争议，折射出公共讨论空间怎样的深层变化？

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中国“网红经济学家”任泽平运营的微信公众号“泽平宏观”最近被禁止新增关注。 （互联网）

经常语出惊人的中国“网红经济学家”任泽平，最近遇上麻烦了。

上周六（10月24日），有网民发现任泽平运营的微信公众号“泽平宏观”被禁止新增关注，页面显示账号违规。媒体随后注意到，微博、今日头条、抖音等平台，陆续把任泽平账号的“经济学家”认证给撤销了。粉丝量依然可观，没了“经济学家”的头衔，便只剩下“网红”二字。

今年47岁的任泽平一向不缺话题。他曾是体制内学者，2014年从中国国务院发展研究中心辞职，下海到券商工作，先后在国泰君安、方正证券等机构任职。与很多券商分析师不同，他十分善于煽动投资者情绪，抛出“5000点不是梦”等耸动的分析文案，早年就展现出吸引眼球的“网红”潜质。

中国官媒评姆巴佩风波：吃饭砸锅言行不会被接受

2026年10月28日 07:34

法国球星姆巴佩发表涉华言论在中国引发强烈反弹，中国官媒发文提醒，公众人物名气越大，越要为言行负责，若一边享受当地市场丰厚回报，一边冒犯当地所珍视的民族感情，这种“吃饭砸锅”的言行不会被接受。

人民日报社网络评论平台“人民锐评”微信公众号星期三（10月28日）发表评论文章称，这场风波抛出的问题值得外籍公众人物深思：一名备受追捧的球星，为何突然成为各方切割的对象？

文章首先肯定姆巴佩的价值毋庸置疑，但随即指出，一旦公众人物的言行越过底线、踩了红线，这种价值就会迅速转向，成为品牌的负资产。文章指出，姆巴佩此次“翻车”，中国平台和企业与之切割，“既是原则使然，也是基于商业逻辑的必然”。

文章列举过往类似案例指出，公众人物的商业价值，建立在社会信任与情感基础之上。名气越大、拥趸越多，越要为自己的言行负责；一旦触碰底线、冒犯公众，光环会迅速消散，甚至遭到反噬。

文章提醒，如何尊重不同国家、不同文化背景，是明星的必修课。尊重他人的历史文化、社会习俗和民族感情，是跨越国界开展交往的基本准绳，也是国际社会普遍遵循的行为准则。“无论在哪个国家，一边享受当地市场的丰厚回报，一边轻慢甚至冒犯当地所珍视的历史文化、社会习俗和民族感情，这种‘吃饭砸锅’的言行都不会被接受”。

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文章最后强调，中国欣赏世界各地的优秀人才，也欢迎不同文化的交流碰撞，但基本前提是知尊重、懂敬畏、守分寸，“开放的中国，乐见更多伙伴搭乘中国发展的快车、便车”。

效力于皇家马德里的姆巴佩在访谈中发表涉华言论引发中国舆论反弹，多家企业宣布终止与他的合作，中国央视宣布叫停西甲及涉及姆巴佩的赛事播出，并下架涉及他的广告。中国外交部发言人则称他的言行“伤害中国人民感情”。

姆巴佩星期二（27日）晚在X平台以中英法三种语文发表道歉声明，称自己的言论欠妥。他同时强调，自己对中国人民及其历史怀有深深的敬意，“我真心感到抱歉”。

Judge who apologized to accused would-be Trump assassin lights up DOJ in Hunter Biden FBI case

Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui threw out obstruction charges against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides over the unusual filing

By Robert Schmad
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Published October 27, 2026 4:43pm EDT

Former FBI officials charged with lying in Hunter Biden probe

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, who previously apologized to a man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump, rebuked the Justice Department on Tuesday over its attempt to bring new obstruction charges against two former FBI officials without first securing judicial approval.

Former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides were arrested last week after the Department of Justice accused the duo of misrepresenting their involvement in investigations concerning former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in statements to Congress.

Hours before prosecutors were scheduled to defend their original allegations at a preliminary hearing, where the government must establish probable cause, the DOJ filed a superseding criminal complaint seeking to add new charges against the former officials. The new complaint sought to add felony obstruction allegations against the former officials while softening some of the language prosecutors had used to describe their involvement in the Hunter Biden investigations.

Faruqui sharply criticized the DOJ for filing an unsigned and unsworn criminal complaint in the middle of the night without first obtaining judicial approval.

WHO IS JUDGE ZIA FARUQUI? WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE FEDERAL MAGISTRATE WHO APOLOGIZED TO COLE ALLEN

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Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui speaks before a debate between incarcerated students and James Madison University students on the topic of abolishing life without parole at Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22, 2024.(Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“I think they should have filed nothing,” Faruqui said, according to reports from inside the courtroom. “They never had complaints filed on their record that are unsigned, waiting for a judge to make a probable cause finding. I think that it is inappropriate and harms the defendant. I’m frustrated that I got it in the middle of the night, but I’m much more concerned that it’s filed on the public record.”

“Why today on this one case have you changed the entire history of how you charge cases?” Faruqui asked the DOJ. “What is it? It appears that – it makes it look like the United States is afraid of me trying to find probable cause.”

John Borchert, a prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., said it was the first time he had filed new charges against someone without going through judicial review.

Faruqui rejected the superseding complaint because prosecutors had not secured the required judicial authorization, allowing the preliminary hearing to proceed on the original allegations that Floris and Benavides lied to Congress. Floris’ lawyers argued that the changes in language between the two documents calls into question the factual basis of the DOJ’s case.

JUDGE WHO APOLOGIZED TO WHCA SHOOTING SUSPECT WAS APPOINTED BY COURT FULL OF ANTI-TRUMP JUDGES

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Hunter Biden and former FBI official Nikki Floris.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh; AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

In the superseding complaint, prosecutors described Benavides and Floris as having been “involved in” the Foreign Influence Task Force’s work concerning Hunter Biden, a softer characterization than the original complaint’s suggestion that they had been at the “center” of those activities. Floris, who was previously said to have been involved in “scores of conversations” related to Biden’s son, is now only accused of participating in “conversations.”

In what may have been a reference to the recently unsealed charges against former FBI Director James Comey, Faruqui said that moving on a superseding complaint without a probable cause finding “would be like charging someone by information… but in a complaint context.”

“If you want a superseding complaint, like every other case that’s happened in this district, we will have a judge make a probable cause finding,” the judge said. “Not send me something in the middle of the night and expect that it gets done.”

Faruqui has previously faced criticism from conservatives over his support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, criticism of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and positions on pretrial detention. He also drew backlash after apologizing to Cole Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and criticizing the government’s use of five-point restraints against him.

“To me, it’s extremely disturbing that he was put in five-point restraints, a person with no criminal history,” the judge said about Allen at a hearing earlier this year. “It’s troubling. I never heard of one Jan. 6 defendant who was put in five-point restraints or in a safe cell. If the only way to keep him safe is the most punitive thing, that’s a problem.”

The DOJ has also been questioned for charging via complaint rather than through a grand jury, a procedural shortcut usually reserved for imminent threats to public safety.

DEMOCRATS HAVE ‘DIRTY HANDS’ OVER COMPLAINTS ABOUT OMAR RAID WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION, EX-PROSECUTOR SAYS

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Critics have questioned the timing of the charges, with midterm elections being just days away when news of the two former officials’ arrests broke.

Floris’ lawyers have similarly argued that the timing and content of the charges are meant to engineer publicity.

“What is going on at the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office? In the middle of the night, the government filed an unsigned and unsworn complaint attempting to fix the issues with their original charge against Ms. Floris and adding a new charge just as meritless as the first one,” said Floris’ legal team in a statement provided to CBS News.

“In our combined decades of DOJ service, we have never seen or even heard of something like this being filed,” they went on. “That’s because the public lodging of criminal charges must be authorized by the grand jury, a judge, or the defendant herself. Here, the government has taken that power for itself in a desperate attempt to delay our client’s right to challenge the charges in court and litigate this case in the media, rather than the courtroom. We have asked to address this outrageous government conduct against a decorated public servant at today’s court hearing.”

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Legal teams for Floris and Benavides, as well as the DOJ, did not respond to requests for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

巴西前总统之子败选后传逃往美国 卢拉斥行为可耻

2026年10月28日 07:21

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美国媒体报道称，巴西总统选举落败的右翼候选人弗拉维奥·博索纳罗据报违反法院出境禁令，正前往美国佛罗里达州。 （法新社）

美国媒体报道称，巴西总统选举落败的右翼候选人弗拉维奥·博索纳罗违反法院出境禁令，前往美国。

法新社报道，巴西总统卢拉星期二（10月27日）批评，如果败选对手确实潜逃出国，这种行为令人羞耻。

美国媒体星期二报道，45岁的弗拉维奥已离开巴西，正前往美国佛罗里达州。美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）引述一名不具名官员披露有关消息，其他美国媒体也报道了他的赴美行程。

不过，巴西警方尚未证实弗拉维奥已经离境。一名警方消息人士告诉法新社，弗拉维奥的巴西普通护照及外交护照均已被注销，官方也没有他离境的记录。

法新社查阅的意大利国会文件显示，弗拉维奥自2023年起便拥有意大利国籍。

美国国务院星期二说，将向弗拉维奥及家人发放签证，但未证实他的旅行计划。

弗拉维奥是巴西前总统博索纳罗之子。他在星期天（25日）的总统选举中败给寻求连任的卢拉，但拒绝承认败选，并声称将寻求推翻选举结果。

弗拉维奥星期一透露，巴西最高法院一名法官已下令他交出护照。他目前因涉嫌贪污及洗钱受到调查，败选也意味着他将失去国会议员的司法豁免权。

他当时在社媒发布视频，批评出境禁令是恐吓手段，并强调自己从未打算离开巴西，愿意交出护照及为自己辩护。

弗拉维奥的竞选经理马里尼奥星期二说，对他疑似出逃的报道感到震惊，团队目前仍不知道他的下落。他说，当天早上曾收到弗拉维奥的短信，对方表示稍后会与团队联系，此后便再无消息。

卢拉星期二在巴西利亚庆祝81岁生日时说：“一个偷偷离开自己国家的人，肯定有什么事情要隐瞒。离开巴西的行为令人羞耻。”

卢拉在星期天的大选中以51.8%的得票率击败弗拉维奥。美国总统特朗普随后声称巴西选举遭到操纵，但未提出证据。

U.S. issuing visas to Brazil’s Flávio Bolsonaro and family after he lost presidential election, official says

October 27, 2026 / 5:43 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will receive U.S. visas after Bolsonaro lost Brazil’s presidential election over the weekend, a senior State Department official told CBS News on Tuesday.

Bolsonaro, an ally of President Trump, and his family will be allowed entry into the U.S., the official said.

Bolsonaro departed Brazil for the U.S. following his loss to incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s election, according to multiple Brazilian media reports.

A spokesperson for Bolsonaro did not respond to a request for comment. His campaign manager Rogério Marinho also refused to comment.

Bolsonaro’s brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in Texas, had publicly encouraged him to leave Brazil if he lost the election.

Bolsonaro has touted his relationship with Mr. Trump and visited the White House in May. The family connections go deeper: Brother Eduardo Bolsonaro was convicted in absentia in June of illegally lobbying the Trump administration and sentenced to four years in prison. A warrant was recently issued for his arrest.

Mr. Trump did not offer a full-throated endorsement of Bolsonaro in the runoff against Lula, as he has with some other right-of-center candidates in Latin America. But he suggested on Monday, without providing evidence, that Brazil’s election was “rigged.”

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Flávio Bolsonaro, a Brazilian presidential candidate, speaks during a press conference at the Liberal Party camp following the runoff election in Brasilia, Brazil, on Oct. 25, 2026. Arthur Menescal / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bolsonaro’s decision to leave Brazil came as a deadline for him to surrender his regular and diplomatic passports expired at noon Tuesday. It remained unclear whether he had complied.

Bolsonaro was served with the order to surrender his passports Monday, a day after his stunning loss. Bolsonaro said he received it outside the home where his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for attempting a coup following his 2022 election loss to Lula. After his 2022 defeat, Jair Bolsonaro fled Brazil for Florida. He returned three months later.

The sealed Supreme Court order, viewed by The Associated Press, was issued Sunday. Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat and has made unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud.

Lula, who turned 81 on Tuesday, received more than 64 million votes, compared with fewer than 60 million for Bolsonaro, a margin of nearly 4%.

Olivia Gazis contributed to this report.

特朗普政府拟缩短难民身份申诉期限 法院暂时叫停

2026年10月28日 07:42 / 联合早报

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一名美国联邦法院法官星期二（10月27日）下令，暂缓执行美国公民及移民服务局10月14日颁布的新规，这项规定原本将难民对撤销合法身份决定提出异议的期限，从30天缩短至10天。 （示意图）

美国联邦法官星期二暂时阻止特朗普政府实施一项新规。这项规定将难民对撤销合法身份决定提出异议的期限，从30天缩短至10天，预计可能影响多达18万6000人。

路透社报道，波士顿联邦地区法官科比克（Julia Kobick）星期二（10月27日）下令，暂缓执行美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）10月14日颁布的新规，禁令有效期至11月6日。

多个难民权益组织星期一（26日）入禀法院，挑战这项新规及政府扩大审查难民身份的计划。

科比克指出，在案件交由另一名法官审理前，应维持现状。

代表原告的律师鲁韦尼说，裁决为已收到撤销难民身份通知的人提供实质保障。

不过，美国公民及移民服务局发言人卡勒批评，诉讼毫无根据，旨在干扰特朗普政府按照国会立法原意执行移民法律。

负责监管移民服务局的国土安全部此前估计，新规可能影响多达18万6000名难民。

Grand jury declines to indict Trump critic Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony

October 27, 2026 / 6:39 PM EDT / CBS News

Federal prosecutors were rebuffed in their effort to secure an indictment against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to four sources briefed on the grand jury proceedings.

The Justice Department has not yet responded to a request for comment.

The Washington Post first reported that the grand jury declined to indict Hutchinson.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has been handling the Hutchinson investigation, CBS News previously reported, and during a hearing on another matter Tuesday, a litigator with the division, Neville Hedley, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui that the grand jury had not concurred on the proposed indictment. Hedley did not say who the defendant was, but multiple sources confirmed it was Hutchinson.

Hutchinson, who was a top aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, angered President Trump’s allies and his base when she testified in 2022 before the House select committee investigating the 2021 Capitol attack.

In depositions and congressional testimony, Hutchinson said that Mr. Trump and Meadows were warned on Jan. 6 that some of his supporters were carrying weapons to the Capitol, but Mr. Trump said he didn’t care — and he tried to order officials to remove the magnetometers at the rally where he spoke that morning.

She also relayed a story she said had been told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, in which Mr. Trump grew incensed after his lead Secret Service agent would not drive him to the Capitol after the president’s speech to supporters. During that address on the White House Ellipse, he had encouraged them to go to the Capitol, where Congress was confirming the Electoral College results from the 2020 election. He told supporters that “after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you.”

Hutchinson testified that Ornato had told her that in the car, Mr. Trump lunged at the steering wheel. Her account was later contradicted by Mr. Trump’s driver, who in sworn testimony claimed that the president never tried to grab the steering wheel.

CBS News could not determine precisely which parts of Hutchinson’s testimony were being scrutinized by prosecutors. According to media reports, House Republican allies of the president made the referral to the Justice Department.

Jacob Rosen contributed to this report.

Cuban exile-turned-congressman unloads on Dem Senate hopeful over Cuba remarks

Rep Carlos Gimenez accused Angie Nixon of failing to adequately condemn Cuba’s communist regime

By Pedro B Rodriguez-Aparicio | Fox News

Published October 27, 2026 1:07pm EDT

Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., breaks down her worries about Florida Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Angie Nixon, her record and the key issues shaping the race ahead of the midterm elections on ‘Hannity.’

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EXCLUSIVE: A Cuban-American congressman whose family fled Cuba’s communist regime slammed Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon, accusing her of not going far enough in condemning the island nation’s dictatorship.

Nixon, the Florida state representative running to unseat Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., pushed back after CBS News initially characterized her remarks during an interview aired Monday as a refusal to call Cuba a dictatorship.

“Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?” the interviewer asked Nixon.

“That is what people have told me. I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have to take their word for it,” Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), responded.

FLORIDA SENATE CANDIDATE ANGIE NIXON CALLS FOR JAILING GOP OPPONENT ASHLEY MOODY

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., campaigns with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, during a Fighting Oligarchy Tour campaign stop at The Cuban Club Courtyard on Oct. 17, 2026 in Tampa, Florida.

In a now deleted tweet, CBS accused Nixon of refusing to answer the question, which Nixon responded to as “a serious failure of editorial reporting.”

“To claim I declined to answer the question is categorically false. That is not journalism. It is misinformation,” Nixon added in her online response. CBS has since re-uploaded the footage on X and apologized for the misleading language.

However, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., whose family fled Cuba when he was young, told Fox News Digital that he still believes Nixon refused to acknowledge the island nation’s regime.

“There is no ambiguity: Cuba is a communist dictatorship that has imprisoned, tortured, and murdered innocent people for decades,” the congressman said. “Floridians deserve leaders who stand unequivocally for freedom, not politicians who whitewash the horrors of communism.”

Cuba has been under communist rule since 1959.

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RUBIO WARNS CUBA HAS INFILTRATED US WITH SPIES, CALLS COMMUNIST REGIME AN ‘ESPIONAGE SUPERPOWER’

Ian Vallecillo, a South Florida lawmaker whose family escaped the totalitarian regime in Nicaragua, echoed Gimenez’s claim in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“This is a perfect example of ideological cognitive dissonance. Acknowledging Cuba’s dictatorship means confronting the failure of a Marxist system she appears sympathetic to,” the lawmaker stated. “Cuba is a nearly 70-year experiment in Marxism that has produced economic devastation, repression, and a brutal dictatorship. Yet these are the same people who constantly accuse Trump and Republicans of being dictators, while hesitating to acknowledge actual dictatorships that align with their ideology.”

Vallecillo accused Nixon of “showing her true colors,” who has a biased view of communist regimes since she and her fellow DSA members have spent “their lives defending a failed ideology and therefore cannot recognize that they are on the wrong side of history.”

RNC WARNS DEMOCRATS FACE ‘POLITICAL SUICIDE’ AFTER DSA PRAISES FIDEL CASTRO, DEMANDS RUBIO’S PROSECUTION

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., speaks during the Congressional Hispanic Conference press conference in the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2025.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

Nixon did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

During her interview, Nixon criticized the decades-long U.S. embargo on Cuba and expressed support for returning to policies implemented under former President Barack Obama, arguing that such an approach could help address the island’s widespread blackouts and shortages of medical care.

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In 2014, Obama began a diplomatic thaw with Cuba, restoring diplomatic relations and easing certain economic and travel restrictions imposed during the Cold War.

RUBIO URGES CUBANS TO WORK WITH CIA TO BRING POLITICAL CHANGE TO COMMUNIST-RUN ISLAND

The Obama administration also removed Cuba from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2015 and eased restrictions on certain forms of trade with the island nation.

Nixon and other DSA members have long argued that the U.S. embargo contributes to the deteriorating living conditions faced by the Cuban people.

CUBA’S DICTATORSHIP HAS LONG BEEN A THREAT TO AMERICA. NOW, IT’S FINALLY TEETERING

President Donald Trump’s administration has maintained that certain U.S. sanctions target businesses tied to Cuba’s military, including Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA), a conglomerate controlled by the Cuban armed forces.

President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro visit during an exhibition game between the Cuban national team and the Major League Baseball team Tampa Bay Rays at the Estadio Latinoamericano, March 22, 2016, in Havana, Cuba.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

According to reports, GAESA is worth over $14.5 billion and oversees 37% of the country’s gross domestic product.

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“That’s not sanctions on the Cuban people. The Cuban people don’t benefit from GAESA,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

Ilhan Omar’s radical streamer ally rallies with embattled lawmaker after DC home raid

The far-left streamer dismissed criticism from Democrat lawmakers in Minnesota as ‘the beauty of democracy’

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Published October 27, 2026 1:38pm EDT

WATCH: Hasan Piker confronted for controversial stances after rallying with Ilhan Omar

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker defends Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar after the Democrat condemned Piker and refused to rebuke his comments that America “deserved 9/11.” (Credit: Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

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Far-left streamer Hasan Piker dodged his controversial past in an exchange with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, hours after teaming up with embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on the campaign trail to co-host an event in her home state of Minnesota.

He also dismissed his disagreements with Democratic Party leaders after he called Republicans “terrorists” and Omar said the GOP is the “pedophile protection party” during the stream on Monday.

Omar’s decision to embrace Piker on the campaign trail marks a potentially risky political alliance, coming on the back of a high-profile raid on her Washington, D.C., home amid two dueling investigations — one for alleged immigration fraud, which could threaten her political future and citizenship status, and the other for fishy financial disclosure statement discrepancies.

The lawmaker’s appearance with Piker comes after Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed drew backlash from his own party for campaigning with the controversial Twitch streamer earlier this cycle.

HASAN PIKER LASHES OUT AT REPUBLICANS, CALLS THEM ‘TERRORISTS’ IN EVENT WITH ILHAN OMAR

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., campaigned with far-left streamer Hasan Piker Monday night, with the two scandal-plagued Democrats slamming Republicans.(SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images; Florencia Tan Jun/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital confronted Piker at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport heading out of Minnesota after the Monday livestream. He was pressed on the criticism stemming from Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., after the two condemned Piker’s comments and pushed back on Democrats’ choice to engage with him on the campaign trail.

“Well, Angie Craig lost, and I think Klobuchar is going to make for a great governor,” Piker told Fox News Digital while walking to security.

Klobuchar condemned Piker’s past statements as “reckless and unacceptable,” while Craig called his rhetoric “polarizing and dangerous” and directly called out Minnesota Democrats, like Omar and Fateh, for hosting Monday’s event with Piker as a “mistake.”

When asked if the two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota were right to call out the rhetoric, Piker wrote off their disagreements as “the beauty of democracy,” while also throwing jabs at Fox News.

“I know this is probably going to come across as confusing, because you work for Fox News, but we sometimes disagree with our leadership in the Democratic Party,” he said. “And sometimes our leadership disagrees with us.”

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“But at the end of the day,” he continued, “that’s the beauty of democracy.”

HASAN PIKER ADMITS HE HAS ‘DIALED DOWN’ HIS OPINIONS AFTER PUBLIC AND DEMOCRATIC BACKLASH

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Hasan Piker has recently become a point of division within the Democratic Party.(Noushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The controversy over the Somali-born congresswoman deciding to sit down with Piker with just over one week until the 2026 midterms exposes a divide among Minnesota Democrats — is it justifiable to work with Piker in order to rally his large, young, progressive base to get out and vote despite his heavily condemned commentary?

Piker was asked on Tuesday about his previous comments on Jewish people and Israel after prominent Democrats joined Republicans who have called the streamer antisemitic. He suggested that Jewish Americans were inviting violence against themselves over their support for Israel. He has repeatedly stood by his comments against Israel over its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

“Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism,” Piker told Fox News Digital.

“I will always fight against antisemitism and I find all bigotry to be morally repugnant and completely unacceptable. But I also find it a real shame to constantly complain about people who are outspoken on the issue of Israel’s genocide.”

It was after Democrats, including House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., began calling out Piker for his extreme comments that El-Sayed distanced himself after frequently making appearances side-by-side.

Another reason why Omar’s choice to engage with Piker has been questioned within the party.

Piker refused to comment on one issue though — his past comments claiming America “deserved 9/11.”

“You made some comments on 9/11, do you still stand by them?” Fox News Digital asked Piker, at which point he ignored the question and walked through the line for security.

Both Piker and Omar attacked President Donald Trump during their event Monday night, with the Somali-born lawmaker ripping his “obsession” with Minnesotans. Piker, meanwhile, shamed Democrats for ceding on immigration arguments to Trump’s agenda back in 2024.

REP ILHAN OMAR’S IMMIGRATION HISTORY FACES NEW SCRUTINY AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS SUBPOENA RELATIVES

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“That’s unacceptable. Migrants are not a national security threat. They are our neighbors. They are allies. They work alongside us. They are not the burden, but a benefit. They are what make this country strong, and they’re what make it this country great,” Piker insisted.

“Any Democrat that refuses to recognize that, in my opinion, is un-American,” he concluded.

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Omar is running for reelection and projected for a clear win, despite being under investigation by both Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for immigration fraud and questionable financial filings.

The Minnesota Democrat’s name has also come into question following HSI’s raid on her Washington, D.C., home, with a new federal court filing referring to her as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” as first reported by Fox News Digital. A source told Fox that the language used for her name in the filing was reflective of the evidence compiled in the immigration fraud probe into Omar.

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Omar has defended her name as “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar” and has also denied wrongdoing, accusing the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons.

Hannah is a Production Assistant for the Politics team at Fox News Digital.

Trump accused of trying to ‘force’ Senate candidate on voters as GOP feud erupts

Rep Ralph Norman says he will not help Sen Darline Graham in the final week before Election Day

By Elizabeth Elkind , Alex Miller | Fox News

Published October 27, 2026 1:26pm EDT

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has the latest on President Donald Trump’s campaign push in South Carolina for Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C. and the tightening battle for control of Congress on ‘Special Report.’

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A growing intraparty fracture is roiling the South Carolina Senate race as a Republican congressman is accusing President Donald Trump of trying to force his hand-picked candidate on Palmetto State voters.

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who lost to Sen. Darline Graham, R.S.C., in a runoff for the Senate GOP nomination earlier this year, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he has no plans to help Graham in the final week before Election Day.

“The voters in S.C. are not buying the argument that everyone has to ‘settle’ for a candidate that has been propped up by special interest groups and a Republican president spending millions of dollars spreading false narratives about why Darlene [sic] Graham is qualified to be elected to the U.S. Senate for the next six years,” Norman told Fox News Digital via text message in all capital letters.

He said the general election “is about attempts to ‘force’ a candidate on the voters of S.C. and regardless of the outcome, it didn’t have to be this way as the great people living in South Carolina deserve ‘better!!’”

TRUMP ENDORSEMENT BOOSTS SISTER OF LATE LINDSEY GRAHAM TO HISTORIC RUNOFF VICTORY

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Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., is accusing President Donald Trump of trying to “force” a Senate candidate on South Carolinians. Norman lost the GOP primary for the open Senate seat to Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C.(Eric Lee/Getty Images; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

“Elections have consequences,” Norman ended the message.

It’s a pointed attack at the leader of the Republican Party just a week before voters decide who controls Congress for the final two years of Trump’s presidency.

Graham, who was appointed to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R.S.C., is running a closer-than-expected race in her Republican home state.

THE NINE KEY RACES THAT WILL DECIDE WHO CONTROLS THE SENATE, AND WHERE THEY STAND

Norman said he would refuse to campaign with or for Graham, no matter who asked him to help. He told Fox News Digital her campaign manager had asked his chief of staff if he would campaign with her, but that Norman refused.

That’s despite pressure from fellow House Republicans like Rep. Russell Fry, R.S.C., who told reporters this week, “As somebody who carried the conservative banner as long as he has, he should step into the arena,” according to Politico. Like Norman, Fry lost his own bid for the GOP nomination for the late senator’s seat.

National Republicans are making the case for Graham, too, arguing that the GOP is united behind her.

“At the end of the day, Republicans are unified on beating Annie Andrews,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Emma Hall told Fox News Digital. “Democrats’ socialism has no place in South Carolina, and that’s why President Trump supports Darline Graham.”

SC DEM SENATE CANDIDATE CLAIMS SHE WILL STAND UP TO HER PARTY AS GRAHAM TIES HER TO ‘SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS’

Norman’s decision comes after a bitter, whirlwind primary where he ultimately lost to the political novice in August.

Since then, Trump has returned to the Palmetto State to support Graham, holding a rally in Clemson, S.C., last week as election forecasters have signaled a more competitive race. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted the contest from “Likely Republican” to “Lean Republican” last week.

President Donald Trump listens to Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., during a campaign rally on Aug. 21, 2026, in Myrtle Beach, S.C.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

And Trump isn’t the only one trying to boost her candidacy. The Senate Leadership Fund, a political action committee closely aligned with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R.S.D., pledged $5 million in ad spending in South Carolina earlier this month.

Other big political names in the state are jumping ship from Graham, too. Two former South Carolina governors, Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges, are reportedly backing Graham’s opponent, Annie Andrews.

TRUMP WON THIS RELIABLY RED STATE BY DOUBLE DIGITS. NOW A DEADLOCKED RACE IS BRINGING HIM BACK

Norman’s son, Warren, bucked Graham in an op-ed for FITS News last week. He wrote that he would “not be voting” for the lawmaker and contended that he was leaning toward Andrews.

“As of today, I’m leaning her way. It will be the first time in my life I’ve voted for a Democrat in a partisan election,” he wrote.

“I know the concern many conservatives will have: isn’t a vote against Graham a vote for the liberal agenda? I’ve thought hard about that. Unfortunately, there is no true conservative to vote for in this election.”

Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., arrives for the House Republican Conference caucus meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on May 13, 2026.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

Norman previously told “The Nashional Briefing with Kelly Nash” that he would vote for Graham, but his family would not.

When reached for comment on Tuesday, the White House pointed Fox News Digital to Trump’s comments at his South Carolina rally.

“You must vote for Darline and Republicans, and just — you’re going to be happy,” Trump said. “I tell you, you’re going to look back years from now. You’re going to say it was truly one of the greatest votes you ever made. High-quality person, and she’s going to be great.”

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Fox News Digital reached out for comment from Graham’s campaign.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

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