EXCLUSIVE: TYLER, Texas â Vice President JD Vance told Fox News Digital the Trump administration has no plans to “butt in” on a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., after the raid on her Washington, D.C. home the day prior.
Vance, however, insisted that the law will be enforced if immigration fraud is uncovered.
“We don’t want to be like the Biden administration. We never want to be like that â where they would allow the law to go after their political opponents,” the vice president said in an exclusive interview following a midterm campaign rally in the Lone Star State on Tuesday.
“We really want to let the law, the facts drive this,” he continued. “And if justice requires something else be done, then, of course, we’ll take a step when we have to.”
Omar’s Washington, D.C., home was subject to a predawn raid on Monday conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the principle investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as by Fox News Digital.
Conservatives repeatedly accused then-President Joe Biden’s DOJ of politically persecuting President Donald Trump and his allies after his first term in office ended.
Most notably for critics, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was infamously raised by the FBI as part of an investigation into alleged mishandling of classified documents. That case was closed when Trump again won the presidency in 2024.
“In the Trump administration, unlike the previous administration, we let the facts and the law drive this stuff â so the president and I really don’t butt ourselves in the DOJ investigations,” Vance said. “We’re not trying to micromanage this. We’re not trying to tell [Attorney General] Todd Blanche to do one thing or another. We try to let the facts drive this thing.”
“So we’re gonna let the investigation unfold,” he went on before warning: “If, of course, criminal wrongdoing is discovered or potentially fraudulent immigration is uncovered, then obviously there will be legal proceedings to follow that.”
While an investigation into potential immigration fraud related to a sitting member of Congress is unprecedented, Vance reiterated that authorities will go where the facts take them â no matter the circumstances of the case.
“I think we have to let the facts and the law drive this, right? So I don’t think you can say because politics might be difficult or politics might be easy, you can’t follow the law. You have to actually enforce the law as it exists,” he said.
Additionally, the vice president slammed Omar for what he views as a negative attitude towards the United States despite it being the country where her family fled to escape civil war in Somali in 1991.
“And to the question of it being unprecedented, I mean, wha
