Posted on 09/27/2025 5:59:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Trump fumed, ‘Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain citizenship?’
In as Trumpian a fashion as it gets, the president has rekindled the years-long debate: Did progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) marry her brother?
Shortly after conservative icon Charlie Kirk was assassinated in cold blood by a deranged leftist, Omar reposted a video on X that called Kirk a “reprehensible human being” who was “spewing racist dog whistles” in his “last, dying words.” Republican lawmakers saw an opportunity to censure the “Squad” member and remove her committee assignments. The motion failed by a 214-213 vote.
Nevertheless, some conservatives are demanding Omar’s denaturalization and deportation to Somalia. Denaturalization is allowed in cases of “concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation.” To be clear, Omar will not be denaturalized, nor deported.
But amid Omar-gate, President Trump fumed that she was “SCUM,” derided her “Country of Somalia,” and asked, “Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain citizenship???”
The accusation is nearly a decade old, prompted in part by court filings and a trail of murkier evidence.
Public records show that Omar entered a religious marriage with a man named Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, separated in 2008, and then legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009. Elmi, a British citizen who later attended college in the US. It is Elmi who some have suggested may be Omar’s brother, an allegation Omar has consistently denied.
The marriage with Elmi ended in 2011, but they did not obtain a legal divorce until 2017. In that same period, Omar reconciled with Hirsi, had another child with him, and even filed joint tax returns with him in 2014 and 2015, despite still being legally married to her alleged brother.
In 2020, the Daily Mail quoted an old friend of Omar, Abdihakim Osman, who claimed Omar herself had described Elmi as her brother – and admitted she married him to get the papers he needed to study in the US. Osman claimed Elmi was introduced around Minneapolis as family, and that Omar told him explicitly she was helping her brother get student loans. Omar has flatly denied this, dismissing the story as “baseless,” but has refused to provide documentary evidence to settle the matter.
In 2018, one conservative outlet discovered archived Instagram posts from 2012 that appear to show Ahmed Elmi calling Ilhan Omar’s daughter his “niece.” In 2015, photos from a London trip placed Omar alongside Elmi and relatives, all appearing under the shared surname “Elmi.” But these posts are no longer available and cannot be independently verified.
The Star Tribune tried to confirm Elmi’s identity but ran into the same problem: Somali records are difficult to obtain, and Omar herself declined to clarify.
While this scavenger hunt remains incomplete, what is beyond doubt is that Omar’s life today bears little resemblance to the humble origins she once invoked.
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu in 1982, the youngest of seven children. Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a colonel in the Somali army who brought the family to a Kenyan refugee camp before they eventually resettled in Minneapolis, where Omar grew up in public housing and later entered politics.
She built her brand as the daughter of refugees, a progressive outsider weighed down by student debt – the antithesis of a silver spoon Congressman. But her most recent financial disclosure revealed a net worth as high as $30 million — a staggering increase of 3,500 percent in a single year.
The source of that fortune is her most recent husband, Tim Mynett. His venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital, ballooned from under $1,000 in 2023 to as much as $25 million by the end of 2024. The firm’s board is stacked with powerful names, including former senator and ambassador to China Max Baucus.
Rose Lake Capital’s website once bragged about structuring “legislation” before that word was quietly removed. It now claims $60 billion in assets under management. Around the same time Rose Lake took off, Mynett’s California winery, eStCru, jumped from being worth just $50,000 to as much as $5 million. Both companies have faced lawsuits alleging fraud, which have since been settled.
The overlap with Omar’s official role is clear. After the launch of Rose Lake, Omar formed a congressional US-Africa Policy Working Group. She and Mynett have since appeared at events promoting investment in Africa – exactly the kind of opportunity Rose Lake now pursues. At face value the arrangement is indistinguishable from influence-peddling.
The same Omar who has scorned politicians for leveraging their office for gain now appears to be doing it herself, handsomely. In America, the socialists have a funny way of always cashing in.
So, back to Trump’s accusation. Did Ilhan Omar marry her brother? As it stands, it’s impossible to say one way or the other. Omar continues to deny the allegation as baseless.
What is certain is that Omar has prospered enormously in America, moving from refugee housing to the halls of Congress to a personal fortune worth tens of millions.
That story is perhaps the greater indictment. The congresswoman who speaks endlessly of justice and equity appears to have mastered the very Washington tricks she pretends to loathe.
I don’t know but she’s got four, treasonous RINOs who are hot and sweaty after her.
From the article: “To be clear, Omar will not be denaturalized, nor deported.”
Why not? There’s no downside.
She can marry her dog. I care not. She hates everything good about America.
Why, the American people wouldn’t allow a Somalian woman to marry her own brother to sneak in illegally than they would allow a Kenyan man to get on the ballot and win the presidency.
Never happen.
Oh, wait.
Ilhan: Admit it, gals. He is kinda cute.
True, the Dem insiders like her campaign appeal but warned her “don’t screw the pooch.”
I remember reading during Bidet’s reign that the DOJ investigated and found proof of fraud but refused to pursue it. Could have been BS but I remember it well.
“Did progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) marry her brother? “
There is nothing progressive about that female Moslem!
She can’t even follow her own faith.
Much less attack others for theirs.
The only reason she survives is she is black and a female.
Black Females in Democrat USA could butcher any child in public, in broad daylight, and no Democrat will say a word against them.
Sounds like it would be easy for her (or others such as her supposed brother) to refute the allegations if they were inaccurate. That she has failed to do so speaks volumes.
Democrats largely support the butchering of children. They just label it differently.
JMO, YMMV
fixed it
lhan: Admit it, gals. He is kinda cute.
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Once more: the brother is gay. He is living in London.
Well, he may be back in Minneapolis.
Thanks - been a while since I saw that. 😁
Code name BroFo Ho.
When Omar first got to Congress, Nancy called her in to read the riot act to her over her Jew hatred comments, but quickly backed off and kissed her a** afterwards
Why?
From Wikipedia: “…In March 2020, Omar married Tim Mynett, a political consultant whose political consulting firm, the E Street Group, received $2.78 million in contracts from Omar’s campaign during the 2020 cycle…”
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According to Ilhan Omar’s Wiki entry (which she probably controls), she was born in 1982, spent four years in Kenya as a refugee, and came to the USA in 1995 where they family was granted asylum, and first lived in Northern Virginia, before later moving to Minneapolis. It says she became a US citizen in 2000.
Although her Wiki entry does not delve into details, it says she came with her father and her grandfather. Her mother died when Ilhan Omar was two.
Why her brother would not accompany the family in their journey, or if she even has a brother (or any sisters), is not mentioned.
Further according to her Wiki Entry
In 2002, Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (né Aden). She has said they had an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage. The couple had two children together, including Isra Hirsi, one of the three principal organizers of the school strike for climate in the US. Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008.
In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. According to Omar, in 2011 she and Elmi had a faith-based divorce and she reconciled with Hirsi, with whom she had a third child in 2012. In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an “irretrievable breakdown” of the marriage. The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019.
She uses the excuse of “faith-based Islamic marriage” (ie. you will never find records) to cover the fact she may have been married to two men at the same time.
Her “formal” ie) recorded, marriage to Elmi, and quick “formal” divorce less than two years later, while she kept having kids with Hirsi, is a strong indicator it was a sham marriage - done for some kind of welfare or immigration advantage to Elmi.
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