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NEW: Ilhan Omar Assaulted at Town Hall; "Staged" Immediately Becomes Trending Topic

How Men Think

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There were a number of significant developments in Minneapolis overnight, including a caught-on-camera incident at a town hall hosted by Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.  A man rushed the podium and sprayed an unknown liquid on her.  Also Tuesday, President Trump used the word "de-escalate," an effort to impeach Krisit Noem gained steam, and a CBP review found that more than one agent fired at Alex Pretti.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:14.9

Hey there, folks.

0:16.0

It is Wednesday, January 28th, and it was an incredible day and night of developments out of Minneapolis,

0:23.3

including a U.S. Congresswoman attacked, assaulted, and it's all on camera at one of her

0:31.3

town hall meetings last night. Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, did I get ahead

0:35.9

of myself? We came on yesterday. I was really excited to say, hey, the tone has come down. The tensions have come down. And then yesterday, things got a little more heated.

0:45.6

Absolutely. And look, when you look and see what happened at Ilhan Omar's town hall meeting, that certainly was unfortunate and concerning because the

0:57.9

rhetoric, we keep talking about this, when politicians start throwing barbs at other politicians

1:03.5

and start blaming other politicians for problems or accusing them of malfeasance and

1:09.8

etc. Yes, you have outliers out there who take those words

1:13.7

and put them into action. We have seen it time and time and time again. Thankfully, this one

1:19.5

didn't amount to much. It didn't appear that Ilhan Omar was injured in any way, but who knew

1:25.6

at the time what was in that substance that this man

1:28.1

came up and squirted her with in a town hall meeting?

1:30.5

And there were a stack of significant developments yesterday, including that one in particular.

1:37.2

You will see headlines.

1:38.5

We will give you some context for it if you haven't seen the video, but it was really concerning

1:42.5

Robs when I first saw the headlines before

1:44.8

seeing the video. Attacked. Assaulted. Now, all of that is true. Given, though, what we have seen

1:53.1

over the past year when it comes to politicians and gunfire and assaults and attacks, I thought

1:59.5

the worst. The video, actually, I was a little relieved.

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