This has to be fake

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Hey everyone — it’s Leaflit! In this video I’m reacting to Benny Johnson’s video “FAKE: Ilhan Omar Destroyed For STAGED ‘Attack’ | Internet Finds Undeniable Proof…” — covering the viral footage and social media reactions around the recent “attack” on Representative Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis.

Here’s what’s actually verified:
• A man named Anthony Kazmierczak rushed the stage at a town hall event in Minneapolis where Omar was speaking and sprayed her with a liquid that smelled like vinegar while yelling at her. Police tackled and arrested him right away.
• Forensic testing shows the liquid was a mixture of water and apple cider vinegar — a substance that can irritate but isn’t typically a dangerous weapon like acid or bleach.
• Kazmierczak now faces multiple charges including assault, intimidation, and terroristic threats, and court filings allege he had made threatening statements about Omar in the past.

Despite this, there’s been a wave of claims online — including by political figures like former President Donald Trump — that the incident was staged or orchestrated for political sympathy.

Now let’s talk about the weird parts of this story and why sane viewers are scratching their heads:

1. The substance used wasn’t a real harmful agent. Apple cider vinegar is not a chemical weapon or acid, and multiple reports confirm the substance was vinegar mixed with water. It caused a strong smell and minor irritation, not serious injury.

2. If someone wanted to genuinely harm a public figure, they wouldn’t use something harmless like vinegar. That pulls this whole situation toward the absurd — an attack with a food-grade substance doesn’t comport with the typical definition of a violent assault.

3. Omar’s handling of the moment has appeared hyper-dramatic. She declined immediate medical attention, stayed on stage, and used it politically — which fuels skepticism online about whether the reaction matched the threat. While she has every right to continue speaking, optics matter and this looked more like a performance moment than a genuine traumatic attack given the harmless nature of the substance.

In this reaction I’ll break down:
What the actual facts and forensic reports say
Why calling this a real, dangerous chemical attack is misleading

If you think we should call out both actual dangerous attacks and obvious dramatics used for optics, hit Like, Subscribe, and ring. Then tell me in the comments: At what point does a “stunt” stop being news and start being performance?

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