Trump at Clarksville, TN Rally: Of Omar, 'Let's See What Happens. JD Vance and Our People Are Looking at It Very Strongly'

At a midterm rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, Trump, speaking of Rep. Ilhan Omar, said: “She comes from Somalia… what they’ve done to Minnesota, these people from Somalia, what they’ve done to Minnesota should never be allowed. And let’s see what happens. JD Vance and our people are looking at it very strongly.” The next sentence moves to a Tennessee House candidate.

Binding note: The Guardian quotes “Let’s see what happens,” and that Vance “and our people are looking at it very strongly.” The words match. In context the sentence follows remarks about Somalians and Minnesota generally, so “it” is not clearly an Omar investigation as opposed to the broader subject of Somali-Americans in Minnesota; the Guardian reads it as the former. This entry records the words and their placement, not which reading is right.

Sources: the full-event video by Right Side Broadcasting Network (captions) is the transcript used; C-SPAN’s page for the same rally confirms the event and its date but its player could not be read here. Quotes come from auto-captions, not checked against the audio.

Date kind: event date (rally Saturday 2026-10-10; RSBN full-event video uploaded the same evening).

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