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Penny for the thoughts of Ilhan Omar, the “Squad” member and Democratic Congresswoman for Minnesota’s 5th district, who finds herself the object of affection for at least two of Donald Trump’s government departments. Omar said Wednesday that she plans to move out of her DC home, which was searched by around two dozen Department of Homeland Security agents in the early hours of October 12. Cockburn could retread the well-worn path about how Trump 2.0 was supposed to augur the end of “lawfare” and the weaponization of government, but he’ll spare you.
The probe into Omar, according to the Washington Post, is believed to center on investigating whether she or her father falsified her date of birth in order to secure US citizenship. Omar and her family fled civil war in Somalia in 1995. Omar’s father was a “feared” colonel in the Somali National Army, according to another officer who spoke to the New York Post.
In official records, the Congresswoman’s date of birth was “corrected” from October 4, 1981 to October 4, 1982. This would mean Omar was a minor when she became a naturalized US citizen in 2000, whereas being born in 1981 would not render her automatically eligible for citizenship.
Reporting from the New York Post this week cites federal sources that are “planning to use DNA evidence” in an attempt to prove another long-standing Omar allegation: that she married her brother in order to secure him a green card. Omar was married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi from 2009 to 2017. Elmi never completed his green card application after Trump’s DHS requested more information about the marriage in 2018. In her MS NOW interview this week, Chris Hayes asked, “You’re not related to him at all?” Omar answered, “not to my knowledge.”
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A Minneapolis-based Somali blogger told the Daily Mail in 2020 that Ilhan had introduced Elmi as her “brother from London” to community members in Minnesota. The blogger described Elmi as “a very effeminate young guy.” “He would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very short shorts in the summer. People started whispering about him,” the blogger said. The implication being that her brother is,........