January 29 2026, 08:15 
Last night, 55-year-old Trump-loving right-winger Anthony J. Kazmierczak unsuccessfully attacked Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by spraying her with an unknown liquid in a syringe. Omar survived the attack unharmed, but she has endured years of violent threats, which have been spurred on by dehumanizing, racist, and Islamophobic personal attacks from the president and his cronies.
For years, President Donald Trump and now-former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have targeted Omar with violent and racist rhetoric that paints her as a traitorously un-American, antisemitic, and incestuous foreigner who should be deported and shot dead.
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Trump, who publicly “trashed” Omar hours before the attack, commented on last night’s attack by saying, “I think she’s a fraud. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.” Rep. Randy Fine (R-AZ) echoed Trump’s sentiment, saying, “I blame Ilhan Omar for what happened.” Fine has previously said he doesn’t think Omar should be a U.S. citizen or in Congress.
The man who assaulted Ilhan Omar is a MAGA man through and through, fiercely loyal to Trump, and attentive to his attacks on Ilhan Omar. That makes this yet another case of Trump-incited stochastic terrorism.
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T16:22:25.862Z
“We are Minnesota strong,” Omar told her audience at the Minneapolis town hall meeting, shortly after security officers tackled Kazmierczak. “We will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.” She later wrote via social media, “I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win.”
Numerous web commenters have called the attack on Omar a result of the GOP’s “stochastic terrorism,” which is defined as “the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable” and plausibly deniable.
“I’m not surprised this happened. Not at all,” the attacker’s brother said Wednesday morning, according to The Independent.
“Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists,” the attacker’s brother said. “He has had a hatred of the Somali community for probably 20 years…. He’s got a lot of anger, I have no idea where it comes from…. In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t.”
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