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Shortly before wrapping his speech, President Donald Trump touched on the social services fraud scheme recently highlighted in Minnesota, saying that the Somali immigrants allegedly at the center of it must have had “higher IQs” than Trump originally gave them credit for.
“The situation in Minnesota reminds us that the West cannot mass-import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own,” Trump said.
“I mean, we’re taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed — it’s not a nation. Got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing. And then we have this fake congressperson, who they just reported is worth $30 million, Ilhan Omar, talking about, ’The Constitution provides me,’” Trump went on, affecting a voice for the Minnesota Democrat, who is herself a Somali immigrant.
