Bombshell Report Confirms The Worst About Ilhan Omar

By Mark Steffen

A damning new report confirms a longtime rumor about “Squad” member Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one that opponents have wielded against her since her first campaign for office in 2018.

According to those close to the Democrat, Omar allegedly vowed to “do what she had to do” to get her brother papers authorizing him to live in the country. Conservative critics cried foul, accusing her of marrying Ahmed Elmi in an unlawful bid to game the U.S. citizenship system.

That’s exactly what she did, claims one Somali community leader.

Abdihakim Osman, a former friend of the Squad congresswoman, is the first person to come forward and confirm that it was Rep. Omar’s intention all along to get her brother papers to live in the U.S. Because of the lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, no paperwork of their sibling relationship is available, allowing her deception to fly under the radar for two decades.

“She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country,” Osman told the Daily Mail.

In 2002, Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in a Muslim ceremony that went legally unrecognized. The couple split in 2008 but apparently had a child while Omar was married to her brother Elmi in 2009.

“When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the community,” Osman told the outlet.

He added: “When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it… No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later.”

Osman’s revelations are sure to spark renewed focus on Omar’s relationship with her brother. Originally, she dismissed accusations of a false marriage as “baseless, absurd rumors” and accused journalists of Islamophobia if they dared to ask about her marriage to Elmi. More recently, she has stayed quiet and refused to answer further questions.

“The Congresswoman is focused on the work her constituents sent her to Washington to accomplish,” a spokesperson for the congresswoman said to the outlet.

Omar and her first husband, Hirsi, were married in a Muslim ceremony that went unrecognized by the state of Michigan because they did not file paperwork. The couple had their first child while married and a second while she was legally married to Elmi.