Homan on Newsmax: 'Pulling the Records, Now Pulling the Files' on Ilhan Omar; Says an HSI Fraud Investigator Reviewed the File

On Newsmax, asked whether there is an investigation into the claim that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, border czar Tom Homan said he had been “advised by [a] fraud investigator the other day,” and: “So pulling the records, now pulling the files and we’re looking at it.” He said the investigator, “one of the best fraud investigators in Homeland Security Investigations,” had “no doubt he reviewed the file,” and that he was “running that down this week.” He also raised the statute of limitations: it “became an issue in the last four years when this was first brought up, who was president, who run DOJ?”

Binding note: The Guardian (Oct. 12, 2026) renders this as “We’re pulling the records now.” The spoken words, in the Newsmax video’s captions, are “pulling the records, now pulling the files”; the Guardian’s version is a tightening, not a verbatim quote. Quotes here come from the video’s auto-generated captions and have not been checked against the audio.

This is the earliest on-record statement by an administration official describing a pending federal records pull on Omar. It is a statement of intent to look at the file, not a statement that a criminal investigation was open. Homan spoke on Newsmax as a White House official; the host framed the question around President Trump’s remarks of the week before.

Date kind: broadcast date (Newsmax “Rob Schmitt Tonight”, Monday; video uploaded 2025-12-09 02:30 UTC).

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