Joy Reid Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene the 'Voice of Reason' on Ilhan Omar Raid

Joy-Ann Reid said on Friday that Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who left Congress in January, has handled the federal search of Representative Ilhan Omar's Washington home better than most of her party. Reid then said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer had not matched that outrage: "not so much not yet anyway."

The remarks came on a live broadcast of The Joy Reid Show from Houston, four days after federal agents searched the Minnesota Democrat's Washington residence. Reid read Greene's post on air and asked, "when did Marjorie Taylor Greene become the voice of reason what's going on here she has more common sense than like 90 percent of the republicans in congress how is that."

"Even if she's pretending to have common sense that is true what she said is actually true," Reid added.

What Is Known About the Ilhan Omar Search

Federal agents searched Omar's Washington home on Monday. The Justice Department, which was typically tight-lipped, gave few details about the case other than saying it was a criminal investigation, PBS NewsHour reported. Omar was 12 when she arrived in the U.S., PBS NewsHour reported.

Jasmine Crockett and Marjorie Taylor Greene Question the Raid

Reid played a clip of Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett, a lawyer, who said she could not follow the government's reasoning "because everything's under seal." Crockett said that if the allegation concerned citizenship paperwork involving Omar's father, he is dead, and that the D.C. home exists only because Omar serves in Congress.

"Somebody got to tell me how that happening when she was a little girl leads them to believe that there's something in her dc home," Crockett said. "I am so curious to read what was put into writing."

Greene's post on X began with a list of the two women's policy differences, then asked how "pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar" would bring gas below $2 or make health insurance affordable, ABC News 4 reported. The post also demanded the release of the Epstein files.

The post fits a pattern for Greene. She has broken with Trump over the Epstein files and other parts of his second-term agenda, and those clashes led up to her resignation, effective January 5. Before that, she had attacked Omar for years, including with a 2024 censure resolution against her, HuffPost reported.

Chuck Schumer's Silence and the Democratic Response

Reid's comments about her own party's leaders were mild. "You would think that every single democrat in congress would be losing their minds about it but at least apparently chuck schumer not so much not yet anyway," she said.

She also mentioned a post by Jeet Heer, a columnist for The Nation, saying Greene seemed more exercised about the raid than the Senate minority leader. Schumer had made no public statements about the search, Truthout reported.

House Democratic leaders spoke the same day as the search. A joint statement from Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar called the raid "deeply disturbing" and promised "full accountability for the rogue abuse of power from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice." A planned Jeffries clip failed to play on Reid's show, so she summarized his comments herself.

What Happens Next

The search comes as Trump's standing is weak. His approval sits at 38 percent in PolitiKool's polling average, and Democrats lead the generic congressional ballot by 8.1 points.

For now, the public record is thin. Beyond calling the matter a criminal investigation, the Justice Department has offered few details, PBS NewsHour reported, and Crockett said she could not assess the government's case "because everything's under seal."