It Only Took Three Years For Mainstream Reporters to Catch Up to Conservative Coverage of Ilhan Omar’s Marriage
Posted By Alex Griswold On June 25, 2019 @ 1:24 pm
I have never worked in crisis communications, but I suspect the worst possible lede sentence to read about a client must be this one: "New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws."
As Minneapolis' Star Tribune reported on page one over the weekend, the Minnesota Democrat was caught filing joint taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband Ahmed Hirsi, despite the fact that she was legally married at the time to another man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. And yes, there is a smattering of evidence that Omar and Elmi are possibly siblings. No one seems to be able to prove that they aren't (all the hard evidence is in war-torn Somalia), and bizarrely enough, Omar is the one keeping the rumor from being definitively debunked.
To mix metaphors, there has never been anything like a smoking gun confirming the Ilhan-Omar-married-her-brother theory, but there has been a surprising amount of smoke. The core evidence, as laid out by Power Line's Scott Johnson and local Minneapolis conservative website Alpha News starting in 2016, is the following:
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https://freebeacon.com/blog/it-only-took-three-years-for-mainstream-reporters-to-catch-up-to-conservative-coverage-of-ilhan-omars-marriage/
