The 'racist conspiracy theory' about Ilhan Omar marrying her brother? Obama's feds reportedly found evidence of it in 2016
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Feds found evidence Ilhan Omar was in sham marriage with her 'brother' during 2016 probe
— New York Post (@nypost) https://x.com/nypost/status/2115796319138639878
For years, the claim that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her own brother was waved off as a racist conspiracy theory. Now the New York Times and the New York Post report that FBI and Homeland Security agents under President Obama found evidence in 2016 that her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a sham, with a man believed to be her brother.
The case stalled because prosecutors concluded any crime fell outside the five-year statute of limitations, and a source told the Post the “Biden US Attorney in Minnesota shut it down” in 2021. Fox News Digital confirmed the probe began under Obama.
The Post says it is not clear what specific evidence was found. Omar, running for a fifth term on Tuesday, has called the brother allegation a racist conspiracy theory pushed by the far right.