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Feb 15, 2019 · Updated Jan. 16, 2023. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Claim: Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. Rating: Unfounded. About this rating.
Jul 18, 2019 · By Louis Jacobson July 18, 2019. For years, critics of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., have raised questions about her marriages and made the explosive claim that she had married her brother. As...
Bloomberg. Internet calls for Ilhan Omar to be deported. Amid controversial rhetoric from 'The Squad', old claims that Representative Ilhan Omar married her brother have resurfaced.
- They First Applied For A Marriage License When She Was 19
- Legal Marriage to Another Man — and Reconciliation with Hirsi
- ‘Offensive’ Rumors About Their Relationship
- Affair Allegation
In a statement released in 2016, before Omar was elected to Minnesota’s House of Representatives, she opened up about her personal life — which was already the subject of what she called painful rumors. “In 2002, when I was 19 years old, Ahmed Hirsi (whose name before he received citizenship was Ahmed Aden), the father of my children and love of my...
During her time apart from Hirsi, Omar began a relationship with another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she would go on to legally marry in 2009. In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their relationship “ended in 2011 and we divorced in our faith tradition,” after which he “moved home to England.” Tthe pair would not go on to get legally divorced f...
Since 2016, when Omar first ran for office, she has been forced to contend with the claim — which she has called “absurd and offensive” — that Elmi was actually her brother and the two had really wed to advance his own immigration case. This allegation traced back to a Somali forum, according to the Star-Tribune. Although her 2016 statement was rel...
In August, a political consultant’s estranged wife alleged as part of their own divorce that Omar had an affair with him, according to The Washington Postand other outlets, citing court documents. The consultant, who had worked for Omar in the past, according to the Post, reportedly denied this — charging the accusation was part of a smear campaign...
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Jun 23, 2019 · comment. New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man...
Jan 27, 2020 · January 27, 2020 · 2 min read. The FBI is looking into reports that Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother in order to ease his immigration to the U.S., the New York Post...
Mar 13, 2020 · MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has married a political consultant who worked for her, months after the two were accused of having an affair, which she denied. A marriage license filed in Washington, D.C., shows Omar married political consultant Tim Mynett on Wednesday.
