Former Minnesota Democratic lawmaker says the claim that Ilhan Omar married her brother is 'almost certainly true'
Ilhan Omar, who is facing a Trump administration probe into her conduct, appeared alongside streamer Hasan Piker at a sold-out Minneapolis event eight days before the midterm elections.Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Ilhan Omar's husband, who also alleged to be her brother, identified himself as "a gay man of the East African diaspora" in an August 2026 academic paper, adding weight to claims their 2009 marriage…
Joe Radinovich, a former Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor state representative with close ties to the state's political establishment, posted on X on Thursday that Omar's denials — branding the allegations racist or Islamophobic — are "almost certainly not" true. He also warned fellow Democrats to tread carefully on separate questions about her finances, saying "any objective look at the evidence doesn't look... great." The remarks landed as federal investigators pursue two simultaneous probes into Omar ahead of Tuesday's midterm election.
Obama's FBI and DHS launched the original brother-marriage probe in summer 2016 and found "some evidence that it was fraudulent."
Nearly 40 House Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, refused to sign a letter demanding Trump's administration halt the immigration investigation.
A former immigration judge warned Omar could face both criminal charges and a separate civil denaturalization proceeding if convicted.
