明尼苏达州民主党众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔周三晚间在接受 MS NOW 采访时表示，她认为上周一对其位于华盛顿特区住宅的突击搜查，旨在“恐吓和吓退人们”，使其不敢参加中期选举投票。
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told MS NOW Wednesday night that she believes the raid on her home was to "intimidate and scare people" away from voting in the midterm elections.
奥马尔的住宅于上周一遭到国土安全调查局（HSI）突击搜查，此举与一项针对潜在移民欺诈的调查有关。当局正在调查奥马尔或其父亲是否在帮助她获得公民身份的文书工作中撒谎。边境事务沙皇汤姆·霍曼表示，如果指控属实，奥马尔可能面临撤销归化公民身份的处罚。
Omar's home in Washington, D.C., was raided by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) last Monday in connection to an investigation into potential immigration fraud. Authorities are probing whether Omar or her father lied on paperwork that helped her gain citizenship. Border czar Tom Homan has said that if the allegations are proven, Omar could be denaturalized.
自突击搜查以来，奥马尔一直基本避免公开露面，周三她在克里斯·海耶斯主持的《All In with Chris Hayes》节目中就此事接受了首次采访，并暗示对她展开调查的决定，是特朗普总统为迎合右翼影响者而做出的最后努力。
Omar, who has largely avoided public scrutiny since the raid, gave her first interview on the subject on "All In with Chris Hayes" and suggested that the decision to investigate her was a last-ditch effort by President Donald Trump to appeal to right-wing influencers.
“我觉得他们开始对这些空洞的承诺失去信心了，所以不得不采取一些行动，我想，是为了说：‘嘿，看，我们突击搜查了她的房子。现在你们可以放心了，我们在采取行动。’”奥马尔说。“我认为……无论是‘地铁激增’行动，无论是他们正在审查的选民名册，无论是你刚才提到的逐户敲门，所有这些都是为了向这些人展示他们在采取行动，并为了保全面子。”
"I think they were like starting to lose faith that these were empty promises, and they had to do something, I believe, to say, 'Hey, look, we raided her house. You know, now you can feel comfortable that we are doing something,'" Omar said. "I think ... whether it’s Metro Surge, whether it is the voter rolls that they’re looking at, whether it’s the door knocks that you just spoke of, that is all to show these people that they’re doing something and to save face."
“因为他们做出了巨大的承诺，声称以某种方式存在大量……无证人员在美国大选中投票，并且有什么东西是他们需要去解决的。”
"Because they made this huge promise that there was somehow this massive ... sort of undocumented people that were voting in American elections and that there is something that they need to go and fix."
“因此，他们会试图煽动这种狂热，”她补充道。“我认为，他们最终的目标是恐吓和吓退人们，使其不愿参与和投票。”尽管如此，奥马尔坚持认为，这次突击搜查很可能激励了人们不顾总统的意愿去投票。
"And so they, you know, they’re going to try to gin up this sort of frenzy," she added. "And, I think ultimately their goal is to intimidate and scare people from wanting to participate and vote." Despite that, Omar insisted that the raid had likely inspired people to vote in spite of the president.
“今天我开车过来的时候，我们接到电话说，你知道，人们都在说，提前投票点前排起了长龙。我们很多负责接送民众去投票的工作人员都在说，‘我们没有足够的人手来应对那些需要帮助前往提前投票点的人们的请求。’我认为这起到了相反的作用，”奥马尔说。福克斯新闻数字频道联系白宫置评，但暂未收到回复。
"As I was driving up here today, we were getting calls that people, you know, are just like, there’s a massive line at early voting sites. And a lot of our staff that are, you know, helping people drive to go vote are saying, you know, ‘We don’t have the capacity to keep up with the requests that we’re getting of people who need assistance to get to the early voting site.’I think it’s doing the opposite," Omar said. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
在周二晚间通过一段竞选视频露面之前，自从上周福克斯新闻数字频道首次报道她住所遭到搜查以来，奥马尔一直未公开露面。她的丈夫蒂姆·米内特曾被看到在住所外遛狗。
Prior to Tuesday night via a campaign video, Omar had not been seen publicly since before the raid on her home, which was first reported by Fox News Digital last week. Her husband, Tim Mynett, has been seen outside the residence walking their dog.
此外，福克斯新闻数字频道还发现一名竞选助手给住所送餐，她的两个女儿也相隔两天先后抵达该住所。
Additionally, Fox News Digital has spotted a campaign aide bringing in food and both of her daughters arriving at the home two days apart.
特朗普周二在椭圆形办公室警告说，如果针对奥马尔的指属实，她可能会入狱。
Trump warned Tuesday from the Oval Office that Omar could be jailed if the allegations against her are true.
“会的，她可能会。她也可能坐牢，”特朗普说。“你知道，他们一直在谈论驱逐出境。不，她可能会坐牢。”
"Well, she could be. She could also go to jail," Trump said. "You know, they keep talking about deportation. No, she could go to jail."
“这只是我的个人看法，”他接着说，随后称这位女众议员是“一个非常不诚实的人”，并说她“仇恨我们的国家”。
"This is just my opinion," he continued, before calling the congresswoman "a very dishonest person" who "hates our country."