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Did you know her grandfather worked for the dictator of Somalia? Her family fled Somalia once the dictator got sick because it was likely that mobs would come for her family. Make of that what you will.

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Interesting. Do you have any sources?

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https://www.takimag.com/article/truth-or-trope/

>Rep. Omar, whose beloved grandfather was a high-ranking minion of the brutal Somali dictator Siad Barre.

>The Omar clan had to vamoose from Somalia when their genocidal boss fell in 1991 and the country dissolved into anarchy. In the time-honored Somali tradition, Barre’s victims turned on those they saw as their oppressors.

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Damn! This deserves its own post in /s/politics!