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Multiple reputable fact‑checking outlets — including the Associated Press, Snopes, PolitiFact, Reuters and Africa Check — have investigated claims about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marital history, repeatedly f...
Public records and multiple news reports show Ilhan Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi on Feb. 12, 2009 (a Hennepin County marriage certificate) and that a legal divorce from Elmi was finalized ...
Ilhan Omar is married to political consultant Tim Mynett; multiple recent reports and her 2024 financial filing identify Mynett as her husband and say the couple married in 2020 (see Hindustan Times a...
Multiple fact-checks and mainstream reports find no credible, verified evidence that Rep. Ilhan Omar married a biological brother; major outlets and fact-checkers describe the claims as longstanding, ...
Public, county-level marriage and divorce filings form the backbone of the documented record about Ilhan Omar’s marital history: a Hennepin County marriage certificate showing a 2009 civil marriage to...
Recent reporting shows Rep. Ilhan Omar has repeatedly denied the claim she married a brother and called critics “sick,” while opponents and some conservative outlets say federal records are being revi...
Court records and public affidavits describe a complicated marital timeline for Ilhan Omar that includes an early faith-based marriage to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, a 2009 civil marriage to Ahmed Nur Said...
Public records show legally married in February 2009 and that marriage was legally dissolved in December 2017, after which Omar legally married in January 2018, records and reporting confirm . Reporti...
Records that would prove whether a sibling sponsored another sibling for U.S. residency are typically administrative immigration filings and adjudication notices — not garden‑variety marriage certific...
Public, contemporaneous vital and court records — marriage certificates, marriage-license applications, divorce decrees, birth records, and immigration filings — are the documents that would definitiv...
Ilhan Omar has been married multiple times: she entered a faith-based Islamic marriage with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002, legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 (separating in 2011 and legally d...
Minnesota county marriage records showing Ilhan Omar’s 2009 and 2018 marriages have been reported and used in public debates about her marital history , and media fact-checkers conclude there is no pu...
Available public records and reporting show multiple marriage-related dates in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s history: an Islamic/faith-based marriage to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in the early 2000s (reported as 2002 ...
Minnesota public records and multiple news organizations state Ilhan Omar has three documented legal marriages in Minnesota records: a Hennepin County marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi on Feb. 12, 2009 ...
Ilhan Omar is currently married to political consultant Tim Mynett; multiple profiles and filings say she married Mynett in 2020 and her 2024 financial disclosure lists them together . Her marital his...
entered into marriages to aid immigration for a relative have circulated since at least 2018 and have prompted media reports, congressional requests and partisan demands for subpoenas, but the sources...
Fact-checkers have repeatedly found the allegation that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother or was legally married to two men at once to be unsubstantiated or false, tracing the rumor to an anonymous ...
Minnesota marriage records show Ilhan Omar applied for a marriage license in 2002 with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (then using the surname Aden), has a 2009 Hennepin County marriage certificate to Ahmed Nur...
Hennepin County maintains marriage and divorce records that publicly document Ilhan Omar’s legally recorded marriages and a reported divorce filing; contemporary news reporting cites a 2009 Hennepin C...
News outlets and independent fact-checkers have treated the allegation that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother as a long-standing, widely circulated claim with no verifiable evidence, and have repeat...