Ilhan Omar's ex-husband and suspected brother called himself a 'gay man' in an academic paper amid 'sham marriage' claims
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, the British doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol whom federal investigators believe may be Ilhan Omar's brother, described himself as "a gay man of the East African diaspora" in an August 2026 academic paper on queer violence in Kenya — a detail investigators say reinforces claims the 2009 marriage was fraudulent.
Obama's FBI and DHS uncovered evidence of the sham marriage in 2016 but shelved the inquiry after determining the crime was beyond the five-year statute of limitations.
Obama this week called the renewed Trump-era investigation "appalling" — despite his own administration having been the one to open the original probe.
Nearly 40 House Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, withheld their signatures from a letter urging Trump to shut down the investigation, just days before Tuesday's midterms.
