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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Ilhan Omar Marriage Flummoxes Media Fact-Checkers

The 'baseless smear' that can't be debunked

Media outlets scrambled to prove false the accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother after President Donald Trump mentioned it, but none have been able to definitively reach an answer, largely due to Omar's unwillingness to provide information.

Trump was asked about the accusation that Omar's husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was also her brother during a scrum with reporters last Wednesday and said he had heard talk that she married her brother but knew "nothing about it."

National media had largely kept away from judging the merits of the accusation that she was related to her second husband, which have circulated since her entry into politics in 2016, but after Trump's comment many came to quick conclusions. CNN's Jim Acosta jumped in immediately to criticize Trump for diving in on "disgusting lies." The Daily Beast‘s Will Sommer published a lengthy piece on Friday that did little to nothing to debunk what he calls a "baseless smear."

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Omar is low level scum.

Anonymous said...


Facts are inconvenient truths for the lying, deceptive Somali.

It's a just a continuous litany of lies and misrepresentations for her that go back to the false immigration information she and her father used. He was connected to a brutal Somali regime and would have been refused entry to the USA as himself.

Under the bus; she's gotta go, and not come back.

Anonymous said...

She is here illegally and the facts cannot be disproven so they must be true. She refuses to address the concerns because she is afraid she will be removed from Congress, charged with illegal acts and deported. Will serve her right.

Anonymous said...

She should Hook-Up with Biden !!!! Sleepy

Anonymous said...

If it makes a democrat look bad, you won't see it on MSM. For example, Jessie Smollett. They're still in denial.

Anonymous said...

Who did her Asylum paperwork OBAMA ?