Rudy Giuliani attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar: “You can look Muslim and look more American than that”
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From the February 25, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): What a moment, man. He went directly at Ilhan Omar. You could see him turning in the dais and looking straight down the barrel. He looked right at Ilhan Omar when he was talking about Somali fraud in Minnesota. He hit that just out of the park, and you could see how uncomfortable she was. And she started, like, screaming and ranting and raving. You hate to see it. There's -- this -- I just -- you're not gonna win with the American people when you have somebody who was, like, a refugee a couple of years ago, and then here she is, from this, like, Third World backwater, like, shrieking with all the strange, very odd sources of income. She's now a multi, multi, multi-millionaire. So shady. It's just not a winning message. It's not a winning look for Democrats. You know? What more could you ask for here than making Ilhan Omar the the foil? She took the bait too.
RUDY GIULIANI (GUEST): She took the bait by getting angry. She took the bait by -- it may very well be a religious principle that she's applying. I know it really isn't. Muslims have choice about how they how they dress. And you can look Muslim and look more American than that. Here we are worried about the issue of assimilation, which is another Abraham Lincoln principle. You don't come here to remain Somali. You don't come here to remain Italian. You don't come here to remain German. You don't come here to remain whatever it is you were. You're coming here because you want this country more. There are definable reasons that you come here, which is what has made us -- when we talk about the great immigration of the past, it's no comparison with the Biden invasion. They're two different things. The great immigration of the past, even the illegals in the past, by and large, had a reason to come here that had to do with working, advancing. Now, they were cheating. They were hurting other people that were coming here. People that are coming here now, are just coming here for all kinds of terrible -- the kinds of reasons that occur when you have no vetting at the border. The kind of reasons that occur if you open the door of your house, and rather than to let your friends in or people you like, you let everybody come in that wants to come in. As soon as they find out you have a house like that in the neighborhood, all the crooks come there. That's essentially what happened in the world.