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Former U.S. ambassador on trial in Seoul for what he said about South Korean president in Washington, DC

by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2026 — Real World News

Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Morse Tan pleaded not guilty in the Seoul Central District Court on Friday to criminal defamation charges filed by South Korean authorities.

Prosecutors allege that Tan spread false claims during a June 2025 news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, and later at a church gathering in Seoul, alleging that South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung was involved in a violent teenage crime and sent to a juvenile detention facility.

Tan has been barred from leaving South Korea since arriving in late May 2026 to observe local elections, and a Seoul judge recently rejected his request to lift the travel ban.

Tan's legal team argued that South Korean courts lack jurisdiction over statements made by a U.S. citizen on American soil, that the remarks were protected speech, and that there was no intent to defame or knowledge of false information.

"Everyone, thank you sincerely for coming here and for supporting and backing me. I know that among those who came here, some came from very distant places such as Busan and Daegu, and I am deeply grateful,"

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Former U.S. ambassador on trial in Seoul for what he said about South Korean president in Washington, DC

Rep. Ilhan Omar is really Ilhan Nur Said Elmi? ‘She must immediately resign,’ says the president

by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2026 — Real World News

If Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar has indeed been using a fake name during her tenure in Congress, "she must resign immediately," President Donald Trump said.

New reports reveal that the search warrant signed by a federal judge to search Omar's DC residence identifies her as "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar."

Elmi is the surname of the man who people claim to be her brother that she married in 2009.

Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social:

"It was just revealed that Ilhan Omar's name is not Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather, it's an entirely different name, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and that her last name is, incredibly, also the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person they said she married and had children with.

"When asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, 'Not to my knowledge.' In other words, she somehow didn't know?

"Therefore, because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must IMMEDIATELY resign from Congress.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar is really Ilhan Nur Said Elmi? ‘She must immediately resign,’ says the president

Election interference: Polling firm admits faking data on 5 key states, as reported by NY Times

by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2026 — Real World News

Wedgewood Polls has admitted that the vast majority of its polling data covering key midterm battleground states was entirely fabricated.

The fraudulent datasets were aggregated and reported by legacy media outlets including The New York Times.

Most of Wedgewood's fake data appears aimed at promoting Democrats over Republicans in the Nov. 3 elections, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday.

"These are suppression polls trying to support their favored Democrat candidates and trying to suppress money, volunteers and donors on GOP campaigns," veteran pollster Jim McLaughlin said. "Media should be forcing these polls they report on to disclose demographics and weighting."

The New York Times, which included 15 Wedgewood polls taken from June through October, announced on its website that it had removed Wedgewood from its midterms polling aggregate.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr warned Wednesday that broadcast networks that air fabricated poll data jeopardize their federal licenses.

Wedgewood's widely circulated polls mostly covered U.S. Senate races, with some surprising results.

An Oct. 14 poll on the Mississippi U.S. Senate race showed the Republican incumbent, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, leading her Democrat opponent, Scott Colom,

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Election interference: Polling firm admits faking data on 5 key states, as reported by NY Times

Former U.S. ambassador on trial in Seoul for citing alleged crime of South Korea’s president in Washington, DC

by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2026 — Real World News

Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Morse Tan pleaded not guilty in the Seoul Central District Court on Friday to criminal defamation charges filed by South Korean authorities.

Prosecutors allege that Tan spread false claims during a June 2025 news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, and later at a church gathering in Seoul, alleging that South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung was involved in a violent teenage crime and sent to a juvenile detention facility.

Tan has been barred from leaving South Korea since arriving in late May 2026 to observe local elections, and a Seoul judge recently rejected his request to lift the travel ban.

Tan's legal team argued that South Korean courts lack jurisdiction over statements made by a U.S. citizen on American soil, that the remarks were protected speech, and that there was no intent to defame or knowledge of false information.

"Everyone, thank you sincerely for coming here and for supporting and backing me. I know that among those who came here, some came from very distant places such as Busan and Daegu, and I am deeply grateful,"

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Former U.S. ambassador on trial in Seoul for citing alleged crime of South Korea’s president in Washington, DC
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