Tomi Lahren is probably best known for finding the racist right-wing popular culture niche of being a blonde woman who race-baits under the guise of being “tough” on “snowflakes.” It’s a very lucrative gig if you are willing to throw your soul into an oil drum and light it on fire. When she isn’t attacking the Black Lives Matter movement for being filled with black people, she’s tweeting about how other non-white folk are stealing your jobs and being “bad hombres.”
Good point, Ms. Lahren! Jennifer Mendelsohn decided to do a little digging into Tomi Lahren’s background over at the Wonkette. Mendelsohn is the same journalist who dug up the hilarious fact that insane xenophobe (and possible sociopath) Stephen Miller’s great grandmother couldn’t speak English when she came to the United States, which totally doesn’t jibe with his current racist immigration concepts. Mendelsohn decided to do a little snooping into Tomi’s family history and does a very detailed job of her detective work. After explaining how Mendelsohn found Tomi Lahren’s great great grandfather Constantin Dietrich, this is the part where I write something along the lines of … turns out! … guess what? … Surprise surprise!
Searching ancestry.com for more on Constantin Dietrich brings up an index listing for an INS file labeled “Prosecutions,” that indicates Dietrich was charged with “forgery, in altering the date of his declaration.”
Continuing her pursuit of this tiny bit of Lahren family history, Mendelsohn is able to get her hands on the actual grand jury indictment of great-great-grandad Constantin.
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I ordered the court file, which included Dietrich’s grand jury indictment, in all its 14-page glory. Tomi Lahren’s great-great-grandfather was indicted on two separate counts, for “willfully, unlawfully and knowingly” making a false affidavit in connection with a naturalization proceeding, and for forging a naturalization document, in violation of the Naturalization Act of June 29, 1906. The grand jurors accused him of swearing falsely to the date of his declaration, and of altering the original papers (“with a knife or steel eraser or other instrument unknown to the Grand Jurors”) to make it look like his declaration of intention to become a citizen had been executed in 1911 rather than 1909, apparently because he’d let too much time elapse before completing the naturalization process.
Constantin had the charges dropped because, well, Tomi wasn’t around to hound that jury, I’m guessing. But boy oh boy. I guess we have to say goodbye to Tomi as she clearly doesn’t belong here anymore. Maybe she can write her apology to the rest of us pure-blooded Americans from her boat ride home?
h/t Rawstory