Posted on 10/22/2026 6:40:05 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday called allegations that she married her brother “insane” – but didn’t entirely close the door to the possibility of being related to her ex-husband.
“Not to my knowledge,” Omar responded, when asked by MS NOW’s Chris Hayes if there was any “weird kernel of truth” to the claim that she wed her brother.
The decade-old allegations that Omar and her ex, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, got hitched in a failed effort to get him a green card originated on a “Somali blog,” and spread when “right-wing conspiracy theorists” latched onto it, Omar explained in her first interview since federal agents raided her Washington, DC, home last week.
“Somebody put in there that, you know, he had to have been my brother or something to that effect,” the Minnesota Democrat said.
According to Omar, bloggers “went and like found random people who are like .. ‘She introduced him to us and said he was her brother,’ which is, you know, insane.”
Omar then described herself as “working class” and living “paycheck to paycheck,” when asked about her current financial situation in light of documents where Omar suggested she and her husband had a combined net-worth of some $30 million, which she later claimed was a mistake and revised down.
“I have a Toyota Camry that’s from 2016. It’s our only car. I rent my DC place and my Minneapolis place, and so I mean, I don’t know, that sounds like not the majority of Congress, but there’s some of us that don’t come from wealth and don’t have wealth,” she told Hayes.
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But they had so much in common….
Aunts, Uncles, cousins….all in common.
“weird kernel of truth”
Not surpising that the far-left media thinks truth is weird.
“Not to my knowledge”
A lawyer told her to respond that way.
Also the whole interview was set up to rehabilitate her image....and I’ll eat my hat if she wasn’t provided the interview questions in advance.
That’s probably where she’s been....rehearsing her answers to the questions.
or she has had a stroke and forgot he was her brother?
Minnesota politics, anything could happen .
“Not to my knowledge” is the Omar translation-paraphrase of Hillary’s “I can’t recall”
Did she say anal and oral dont count as sex?
“Not to my knowledge,” Omar responded,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
Plausible deniability is the ability of a person or organization to deny a connection (knowledge, responsibility, or involvement) to a controversial action in a manner that cannot be conclusively disproved.
she was set up.
MoFos in America = fitna
The response you give to the cop searching your car right before he finds the 98 pounds of meth in the trunk.
“Not to my knowledge,” Omar responded,
The purpose of a lie is to control the future.
Billy, did you break that lamp in the living room?
Lying runs through the Democratic party like a recessive gene.
Bill had the classic, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement...”.
Head shaped like a 150 watt, but the brain is likely to be more like a 20 watt.
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