Obama says Trump officials’ pursuit of Rep. Omar should ‘outrage all Americans’

In a statement Sunday, the former president said the administration is targeting the Minnesota Democrat based on her political beliefs. Former president Barack Obama denounced the Trump administration’s investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), saying Sunday that any use of federal power to punish a critic of the president violates democratic principles. “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,” he said in a social media post. “The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to...