‘Lock her up’: Trump crowd chants against Ilhan Omar

A crowd of Donald Trump’s fans have broken into a “lock her up” chant after the president spoke about claims linking “crooked” Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar to illegal ballot harvesting in Minneapolis.

President Trump touched on the recent unproven claims by right-wing activist group Project Veritas.

“What about Omar where she gets caught harvesting,” President Trump said.

“I’ve been reading these reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is.

“Frankly, harvesting is terrible, but it’s the least of the things that she has done.”

At the campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota, President Trump went on to say Ms Omar, a Somali refugee, had been “crooked for a long time”.

The Minneapolis Police Department said it was investigating the allegations.

“The MPD is aware of the allegations of vote harvesting. We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements. No further information is available at this time on this,” the police said in a tweet.

Ms Omar responded to the claims of ballot harvesting.

“The amount of truth to this story is equal to the amount Donald Trump paid in taxes of ten out of the last fifteen years: zero,” she said.

“And amplifying a coordinated right-wing campaign to delegitimize a free and fair election this fall undermines our democracy.”

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