Ilhan Omar speaks to reporters in Statuary Hall on Capital Hill on Tuesday, Jan.
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The Examiner further discovered a 2013 local news article which said that Omar and Hirsi "moved to North Dakota so that Omar could finish her bachelor's degree in political science" from 2009 to 2011, the exact time frame during which she was legally married to Elmi, who also attended North Dakota State.Ĭomplicating matters further, both the Star Tribune and the Examiner reported that the address in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights that Omar and Elmi listed on their 2009 marriage-license application was the same location Hirsi listed as his home address when applying for a business license with the state government that same year. She was fined by Minnesota's campaign-finance watchdog for paying a lawyer with campaign funds to fix the mistake, as federal law prohibits people from filing joint returns with a person who is not their spouse.Īt about the same time, the Examiner published a story reporting that in dozens of publicly available traffic violation and court records, Hirsi "listed his address at a single Cedar Riverside address consistently in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011," the same address Omar listed in separate traffic-violation cases, including during the time she was split from Hirsi.
Numerous public documents obtained and reported by news outlets including the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Washington Examiner, however, cast doubt on Omar's official timeline of her marriage and relationship history.Īs the Star Tribune reported in June 2019, Omar filed joint tax returns with Hirsi in 20 while she was still legally married to Elmi.
Omar also remarried, tying the knot with political consultant Tim Mynett in March 2020. Their divorce was finalized in November 2019, and Hirsi married another woman a little over a month later in December. Omar filed to legally divorce Hirsi in October 2019, citing an "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship" in her divorce filings. Omar officially divorced Elmi in 2017 and legally married Hirsi in 2018. Omar and Hirsi got back together in 2012 and had their third child while Omar was separated from but still legally married to Elmi. Elmi and Omar separated just two years later, in 2011, but did not get a legal divorce. Omar legally married her second husband, Elmi, in 2009. Omar and Hirsi split in 2008, also in a faith-based, not legal, proceeding. The couple had two children together from 2002 to 2008. Omar married her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, in an Islamic faith ceremony in 2002 when she was 19, but the couple did not obtain a legal marriage certificate. Omar released a lengthy statement when she first ran for office in 2016 to address the persistent rumors that she married her brother, which she called "absurd and offensive," and gave a timeline of her marriage and relationship history. Yet Omar has still not explained some discrepancies and inconsistencies in her marriage history. No hard evidence - like a birth certificate or other legal documents - has surfaced to prove that Elmi is Omar's brother or that any fraud was committed. Public documents contradict some of Omar's story about her marriage history President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. Omar was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016 and to Congress in 2018, one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. Omar, who was born in Somalia in 1982, came to America as a refugee with her father and siblings in 1995 by way of a Kenyan refugee camp and resettled in Minneapolis, where she became a US citizen. Trump poured more fuel on the fire in a Tuesday statement, accusing Omar, who came to the US as a young girl, of "abandoning her country" and saying "she should apologize for marrying her brother." In a November 17 speech on the House floor, Boebert called Omar a member of the "Jihad Squad" and referred to Omar's "brother-husband." Lauren Boebert of Colorado is the latest high-profile conservative to revive the unverified claim amid other Islamophobic attacks and insults against Omar. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has for years found herself on the receiving end of a slew of incendiary attacks from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans - including persistent but baseless rumors that she married her brother. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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