Obama condemns probe into Ilhan Omar as Trump official floats denaturalization

Former President Barack Obama called the Justice Department's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar "appalling," as the administration probes her citizenship ahead of the midterms.

• Federal agents searched Omar's Washington home on October 12 in a probe into whether her father lied about her age when she obtained US citizenship in 2000.
• Trump border czar Tom Homan said on Fox News that Omar could "of course" be denaturalized and deported if evidence showed she lied during naturalization.
• Obama wrote that the "full weight of the federal government" is being brought against the Minnesota Democrat for criticizing President Trump.
• Omar called the search "the latest escalation" in Trump's "campaign of political intimidation" and said, "I will not be silenced."