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After the search of his house, Umar was talked to for the first time. She only said “not as far as I know” as to whether her ex-husband was her brother or not. He also responded to the controversy over his green card and identification and criticized the finding for intimidation.
minnesotademocratic party Commonwealth of NationsRepresentative Ilhan Omar gave an exclusive interview to news channel MS Now host Chris Hayes on the 21st. This was his first interview after federal agents searched his home on the 12th. There were rumors that she had married her biological brother. Omar responded that this was “madness”. However, when Hayes asked her if she and her ex-husband Ahmed Noor Saeed Elmi were related by blood, she simply replied, “Not to my knowledge.”
The New York Post described the reaction as “disturbing”. Trump will arrive on the evening of 21stSouth Carolina After the rally he returned to Washington. Responding to a reporter’s question on the tarmac, he said: “‘As far as I know, no’, that’s not a good answer.”
The New York Post, citing sources, reported on the 19th that federal investigators planned to use DNA evidence to prove that Omar’s ex-husband, Almi, whom she married in 2009, was her brother, in order to help her obtain a green card. But Omar denied that agents took items containing DNA during the search.
According to the Washington Post, when Almi applied to convert a conditional green card obtained through marriage to a permanent green card, USCIS requested supplemental documents because “there were doubts about the authenticity of the marriage.” He later withdrew his green card application.
Omar’s congressional asset declaration revealed that she and her current husband, Tim Mynnett, may have a combined net worth of as much as $30 million, but she later said that the declaration was inaccurate and was revised downwards. She said in interviews that she lives a “working-class, moonlit night” life, and that her only car is a 2016 Toyota Camry.
Omar said that at 6 a.m. on the day of the search, she was woken up by a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent knocking on the door with a search warrant. “I thought there was a fire somewhere, or something happened to the neighbors, and it seemed like an emergency evacuation was required.”
Ouma said 15 to 25 agents came in and out of the scene, searched room by room for four or five hours and took 17 items, including her mobile phone, her husband’s notebook, her husband’s camera and a children’s conversation book for learning Somali.
He said the agents “generally behaved appropriately” and returned items to their proper places before leaving, “even folding clothes I didn’t fold,” but he still accused the operation of intimidation.
Omar also said that her address had been exposed, and that she had received death threats over a long period of time, and that her children could be tracked when entering and exiting, so she would move out of her residence in Washington.
On the same day the interview aired, prosecutors referred to Omar in court documents as “Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi, also known as Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.” The latter is Omar’s full name by which he is known, but in the document it was changed to “surname”; And the second part of the main name listed in the document, “Nour Saeed Elmi”, is similar to Elmi’s name.
Somalis generally do not have family surnames. His names are composed of his own name, his father’s name and his grandfather’s name in sequence. If this is Ouma’s real name, it means that he has the same name as Ermi’s paternal ancestor.
Omar was born in Somalia. She fled the civil war with her family when she was young. After living in a refugee camp in Kenya for almost four years, she moved to the United States as a refugee in 1995 and then settled in Minnesota. Her father was naturalized in 2000. Omar claimed that she was 17 years old and a minor at the time, so she automatically got citizenship along with her father. Federal investigators are looking into whether she was actually an adult at the time.
Omar is contesting for a fifth term in the midterm elections.
