“Not to my knowledge.”
Rep. Omar actually said this on live TV after asked by MSNOW mega-hack Chris Hayes whether she married her brother as part of the tangled web of fraud and lies the anti-American “Squad” member is accused of creating. Wow. Is she setting up a Luke and Leia defense? Hayes asked, “You’re not related to him at all?” “Not to my knowledge,” she replied.
That’s Omar’s lawyer banging his head against the wall above.
Omar also called allegations that she married her brother “insane”and then gave that hilarious answer. Allegations that Omar and her ex, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, got married in a failed effort to get him a green card are all the inventions of “right-wing conspiracy theorists,” the Congresswoman insisted in her first interview since federal agents raided her Washington, D.C. home last week.
Omar then told Hayes she was living “paycheck to paycheck,” when Hayes asked about documents in which Omar seemed to say she and her current husband had a combined net-worth of some $30 million. That was just a mistake, she said. “I have a Toyota Camry that’s from 2016. It’s our only car. I rent my DC place and my Minneapolis place, and so I mean, I don’t know, that sounds like not the majority of Congress, but there’s some of us that don’t come from wealth and don’t have wealth,” she insisted.
There are reports that many voters are ignoring true accounts of statements and conduct by Democrats running in the mid-terms because they can’t believe what they are reading and hearing. Omar’s answers about marrying her brother and making the “mistake” of estimating her wealth at $30 million when she must really have to shop at Costco make this phenomenon completely plausible.
Finally, regarding Hayes: I watched the interview so you don’t have to. This is journalism to MSNOW: Hayes talks to Omar in an obsequious, sympathetic, “you poor dear, how terribly you have been treated” manner that is the opposite of putting a politician on the “hot seat.” Putting her in a comfy chair while getting a foot massage and yummy snacks would be more accurate. This is how Axis journalists “speak truth to power” now when they are speaking to progressives and Democrats. My mind flashed back to Katie Couric on “Today” grilling Ross Perot like he was Beelzebub and Tim Russert interviewing Louis Farrakhan like Perry Mason cross-examining a witness he was trying to make confess to a murder. Quite a contrast.
Here’s how to really tell if she’s lying about her wealth. Does she have to shop at Costco with the lowerclass basic membership or does she have the executive level membership?
Oh, c’mon. It’s an accounting rounding error. Happens all the time. I mean, when my wife and I file our tax returns, we routinely make that mistake – my computer keyboard sticks on the zero key every year. I really didn’t have $100,000.00 in office expenses. It was more like $100.00 but, you know, but I can always amend my tax return once I fix that key.
jvb
I really do love the thirty-million-dollar typo. I think it’s my favorite of all time.
It reminds me of the SNL take off of an H&R Block TV commercial where they promise to provide you a defense if you are audited and then show a guy holding up his hands and saying, “I forGOT!”
I predict that the dirt – financial and otherwise – that will shortly be fully revealed on Rep. Omar will make “The Epstein Files” look like “The Rockford Files.” And of course, the Democrats will not care one whit about any of it.
Chris Hayes can’t stand that Rachel Maddow was the MSNBC star. He so wanted to be her that he tried to copy her sassy eyewear, copped her affected snark and dismissiveness, and generally acted as though he was/is the smartest guy in the room.
Here, though, he could not have been more solicitous to a miserable, corrupt, anti-American member of Congress. Think about that for a minute: Omar hates this country, its history and legacy, and its prominence in world economics and politics.
Her immigration problem is just the tip of the iceberg. She is hijab deep in fraud and money laundering all over Minnesota, using her office to syphon off federal assistance funds to political cronies and sent the funds to Somalia.
jvb
I feel I need to defend her response. If the question was in fact “You’re not related to him at all,” that’s a very different question from “Did you marry your brother.” We would reasonably expect people to know if anybody they’re close enough to marry is a half or full sibling. Examples to the contrary are basically plot twists from bad soap operas.
But “related at all” is a far broader statement. Both of my parents come from large French Canadian families with deep ties to my home town. I know all of my first cousins, several (but not all) of my second cousins, and basically none of my third or fourth cousins, which taken together probably run into the three-figure range. It was understood, where I grew up, if I was dating a local girl with a French Canadian last name, that if things got serious the family Bibles were coming out so we could at least make sure we had no great-grandparents in common.
You will note that I specified the actual question that prompted that response, unlike almost every conservative source, which implied the the question was “Did you marry your brother?” That’s unethical on their part. Still, her answer was a non-denial denial. Calling the question “insane” is a classic dodge. Meanwhile, her real answer was obviously calculated as a guard against DNA evidence. Who answers a question about a boyfriend or a spouse that way? The answer is “No! Of course not!”
I suspect the exchange was scripted beforehand by her attorney.
If so, she should fire him/her. That answer made her look guilty as well as stupid.
You don’t think she’s trying to say if she did marry a relative, it was an accident and there was no knowledge and therefore the required element of criminal intent is lacking?
They may be preparing to mount a DNA based defense. “Sure, the DNA matches but DNA testing is sketchy, and hey, in Somalia, everyone’s related to everyone else, so the alleged match is meaningless. They’re unwitting third cousins.”
I’m saying that in a nation more than 20 million people, even suggesting that possibility strongly suggests wrongdoing.
“Forget it, Jack. It’s Somalia.”
She’s not answering that question for you or other fairly intelligent people who have IQs above room temperature. She is answering that question with the non-answer to say that she has put the issue to rest and we need to move on. I would best a ton of cash that her office coordinated with Hayes and his underlings to give the impression that she answering tough questions. Hayes spent the entire time covering for her, asking her leading questions that one their face were benign, as in asking her if she is related to her ex-husband in such a way as to say, “yeah, stupid MAGA opponents and their stupid conspiracies.
jvb
This clip from “House” came to mind:
https://youtu.be/_cFJYdAfZ4w?si=pcUPCMelW7eAwA8c
This is all ridiculous. Are you telling me that no one in the US government to the press has been able to figure out the identity of the siblings of a sitting US Congresswoman? Don’t we have background checks? Isn’t it the press’ job to investigate candidates for the people? Are you telling me that they don’t require such information on citizenship application forms? It was on the Dawes Act forms.
This, of course, could be cleared up by Omar holding a press conference and identifying her parents and Elmi’s parents. She has had years to do it, and despite a lot of evidence that points to Elmi being her brother (like his post identifying Omar’s daughters as his nieces), she hasn’t done it.
I totally agree but that would expose not only her fraudulent application as sponsor for her brother’s US green card/citizenship but the massive fraud committed in the Somali (and most likely) other Islamic based communities in immigration cases.
Remember, she married her first husband under Islamic law; she and her second husband – who is reported to be her biological brother – married in a Christian ceremony. There is no evidence that the marriage was consummated.
Why did that happen? Most likely because the Islamic community does not recognize a Christian married but she was able to serve as her brother’s immigration sponsor where a spouse of a US citizen is more likely to acquire a green card or US citizenship. Her brother/spouse, though, withdrew his application for citizenship after reporters in Minneapolis started investigating Omar. There are many photos and social media posts where Omar and her brother refer to their sister’s children as their “nephews” and “nieces.”
Having done some immigration cases, I have learned that in many Islamic communities – Pakistani, Afghani, and others – it is common for a man to marry a US citizen while he is married to a wife in his home country because, under sharia, a divorce under Islamic law may be accomplished by declaring the intent to divorce (talaq* or marital repudiation) and a non-Muslim marriage is not recognized under sharia law. He then obtains citizenship, after which he brings his Islamic law wife to the US as her sponsor. It sounds crazy, but it happens.
I suspect that is what is happening here.
jvb
*Ed. Note: Talaq types can be classified into talaq al-sunnah, which is thought to be in accordance with Muhammad’s teachings, and talaq al-bid’ah, which are viewed as a bid’ah (innovation) deviations from it. Talaq al-sunnah is further subdivided into talaq al-ahsan, which is the least disapproved form of talaq, and talaq al-hasan. The ahsan talaq involves a single revocable pronouncement of divorce and sexual abstinence during the waiting period. The hasan divorce involves three pronouncements made during the wife’s state of ritual purity with menstrual periods intervening between them, and no intercourse having taken place during that time.
In contrast to talaq al-sunnah, talaq al-bid’ah does not observe the waiting period and irrevocably terminates the marriage. It may involve a “triple talaq”, i.e., the declaration of talaq repeated three times, or a different formula such as “you are haram for me”. Some legal schools held that a triple talaq performed in a single meeting constituted a “major” divorce, while others classified it as a “minor” divorce.
Talaq al-bid’ah reflects pre-Islamic divorce customs rather than Quranic principles, and it is considered to be a particularly disapproved, though legally valid form of divorce in traditional Sunni jurisprudence.
In some states it is illegal for a minister to perform a wedding without a valid marriage license (Minnesota is one of them). Now, this brings up the problem of the Islamic Tribunal System in the US. The Tribunal’s website used to say ‘Muslims here in America are obligated to find a way to solve conflicts and disputes according to the principles of Islamic Law,’ and it suggested Muslim’s shouldn’t use the US court system because ‘(t)he courts of the United States of America (which) are costly and consist of ineffective lawyers,’”
You need to realize that Islam is mostly a political system, with much less than half of the Koran and Hadiths relating to what Christians and Jews would consider ‘religious’ topics. Sharia law covers everything from how you must urinate, eat, pray, marry, divorce, accept testimony in court, divide assets, punishments for crimes, etc. Islam is a separate form of government and it is inseparable from what you may view the ‘religious’ aspects of it.
Seems the gathering storm surrounding the talented Ms. Omar (?) is picking up speed; to wit:
Ilhan Omar Isn’t ‘Squad’ Rep’s Real Name As Feds’ Bombshell Docs Give Huge Clue She Did Marry Brother
PWS
A while back I read that some upper class members of African tribes have wealth that allows marriage to several wives, with some men fathering dozens of children. As time goes by the number of genetically related people in these upper castes multiplies to the point of poisoning the dating and marrying pools. I do not know if this situation applies to the Congresswoman. She is more likely wrapped up in fraud.
Oh! It was just her being sarcastic! Mask on, mask off! From a Fox report:
When asked during an MS NOW interview this week whether there was any familial relationship with Elmi, Omar responded, “Not to my knowledge.” Her spokesperson later said the answer was sarcastic and reiterated that Omar “repeatedly and unequivocally” denied the allegation.