I’m back from my trip to Illinois and Wisconsin, having spent some time with extended family, and experienced my minimum yearly exposure to some fall colors.
As usual when I travel, I didn’t keep up with politics while on the road. And as usual, that was a bit of a pleasure. But I have one schadenfreude-tastic story that I’ve caught up on since I got home, and it’s just the latest entry in the Democrats’ “No One is Above the Law! … Unless They’re on Our Side” files: The DHS Raid on Ilhan Omar’s house.
To hear the Dems tell it, Ilhan is as pure as the driven snow, and this raid is part of a wide-ranging campaign to persecute her noble self. And before you can ask, no, this doesn’t involve her wildly fluctuating net worth, which is a non-scandal that never happened, and also a totally understandable thing that happened but is not a scandal in any way.
Got that? No? Okay, here’s the summary.
In 2023 Ilhan and her hubby filed mandatory net worth forms disclosing that they had assets of between $40K – $250K. (I know. When you’re filing your taxes, the IRS doesn’t allow you to guesstimate your earnings to within plus or minus $200 grand. But you’re not a congressman, so suck it.)
One year later, Ilhan submitted that form again, this time indicated that their assets had jumped approximately one jillion percent, to between $6 – $30 MILLION, mostly due to two of her husband’s businesses: a winery in CA, and a D.C. venture capital firm called “Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, LLC.
HA! I kid. The suspicious firm is actually called Rose Lake Capital LLC.
Anyway, somebody noticed the big jump, and pointed out the obvious: nobody’s net worth jumps that much in one year, no matter how many shady Learing Centers they claim to own.
So Ilhan and hubby leapt into action and filed an amended 2024 report, basically claiming, “Did we say $30 million? Oops. We meant $18,000. Sorry about the tiny mix-up, which could have happened to anybody.”
Got that? No? Okay, I’ll put it in simple terms. They claimed that a simple “accounting error” had caused them to claim that the winery and VC firm were worth up to $30 million, when they are actually worth zero. And also, their 2023 form had listed their net worth as between $40-$250K, but in the next year that had somehow dropped to between $18-$95K. Never mind why.
Clearly, Omar has richly deserved a number of investigations for years, and it raises red flags about our system that that hasn’t happened before now. In addition to her appearing and then vanishing fortune, she has been associated with some of the shady figures later indicted in the various Somali fraud schemes in Minnesota, for example. Although in her defense, it seems like nearly every Somali in Minnesota has a Kevin-Bacon-esque several-degrees-of-separation link to at least a couple of Somali fraudsters.
That might just be an indictment of the wide-spread fraud in the MN Somali community, without being an indictment of her. But I wouldn’t bet on that.
There’s also the matter of her apparently lying about the circumstances of her own and her family’s immigration to America. After her family came to the US in 1995, Omar is accused of lying about her age when she was granted American citizenship in 2000, by claiming to be under 18 at that time. That age would allow her to apply for citizenship under her father, a quicker and easier process than starting a new application case for her as an adult.
When she was first elected to congress in November of 2016, the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library listed Omar’s birthdate as October 4, 1981, which would have made her over 18 when she was granted citizenship. And that fact would have invalidated her citizenship, since it had been granted based on a lie.
In May of 2019, one of Omar’s Democrat primary opponents released a viral video alleging that she had lied about her age when she applied to get citizenship. And then, suddenly, her congressional staff were said to have contacted the Minnesota Library, Wikipedia, and the US House to “correct” her birth date.
Unexpectedly!
I haven’t been able to find out who initially reported that she was born in 1981. But when asked about the “corrected” date of 10/4/82, an official at the Minnesota Library said that “we do not have any supporting documentation [of her birthdate], as the information was ‘self-reported’.”
And who can you trust to accurately self-report potentially incriminating facts, if not a member of the Somali pirate-adjacent community?
Now you might be saying, “Martin, what difference does her age make? She applied for citizenship under her father, so what’s the big deal? He was a Somalian “educator” (according to Ilhan’s repeated public statement) who fled his country’s devastating civil war as a refugee, and thus deserved asylum in America.”
Except for one little detail. During Somalia’s civil war, around 200,000 Somali civilians were murdered in the course of an actual attempted genocide. (Not like the faux genocide in Gaza, in which Israel has done everything it can to minimize “Palestinian” civilian casualties. Or the faux “trans-genocide” in America, in which disturbed “trans” people murder school kids and others, and also commit suicide at abnormally higher rates, due to their disorder.) This atrocity was carried out by a communist dictator named Siad Barre, after he took power in a Soviet-backed coup in 1969.
Unfortunately, Ilhan’s dad – Nur Omar Mohamed – was not an “educator” at all. Unless you count guys who taught classes like “Massacring Civilians 101,” “Poisoning Civilians’ Wells 201,” or “Laying Landmines on Civilian Grazing Lands 301” – all of which Ilhan’s employer did – as “educators.”
Because Nur was actually … wait for it …a full colonel in Siad Barre’s brutal military regime. And yes, he did flee Somalia. But only after a civil war that over-threw the communist dictatorship he served in.
So Ilhan’s family was less like a group of innocent refugees seeking legitimate asylum, and more like a top Nazi leader’s family fleeing Germany in May of 1945 after their side had lost World War Eleven. But thanks to our country’s half-arsed system of vetting foreigners trying to immigrate, Ilhan’s dad was wrongly granted citizenship. He could now have his citizenship (and that of his family) revoked, if he hadn’t died from Covid in 2020.
If all of that wasn’t enough, Ilhan allegedly decided to defraud America through our immigration system once again, this time by marrying her brother, to allow him to get his American citizenship. Because why should he feel left out, when everyone else in her family had already defrauded us to get their citizenship?
Anyway, the story of her marriages is a tangled one. Her first “marriage” was “an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage” to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. They had two kids, and then got a Muslim “divorce” in 2008. In 2009 she legally married a second Ahmed, this one Ahmed Elmi, who is allegedly her brother. She allegedly did so to allow him to get access to a Green Card, student loans, and possibly American citizenship, though I couldn’t find any evidence that he did ultimately pursue citizenship.
Thankfully, Ahmed 2 (the brother) probably didn’t consummate his marriage with Ilhan (because: gross!). At any rate, they had no kids together, and they got an Islamic “divorce” in 2011. Then Omar reconciled with Ahmed 2 just one month later, and they had a third kid in 2012, even though she was still legally married to Ahmed 2. Finally, she and bro-Ahmed 2 got a legal divorce in 2017, and then she legally married non-bro Ahmed 1 in 2018.
You can’t tell Ilhan’s Ahmeds without a score card!
Anyway, one year later Ilhan and Ahmed 1 legally divorced, and she entered a third marriage – or a second legal marriage, but who’s counting? – to a white dude named Ahmed Mynett.
Just kidding! His name is actually Tim. (He’s the one with the businesses worth tens of millions, or possibly a few thousand, depending on which year it is.)
Despite all of these legal marriages and pseudo-marriages and assorted Ahmeds, you don’t have to look at this marrying-her-brother story in great detail before you can smell a rat. You only need to have even a passing knowledge of human nature. Because that would allow you to picture your own reaction, if you were ever accused of marrying your brother or sister.
You would immediately say, “No, gross!” or “How dare you?” or “GTF out of here!” Or something to that effect. Then you’d offer to take a DNA test immediately, which would exonerate you, once and for all, and beyond all doubt.
Unless, of course, you’d actually married your brother.
Guess what course of action Ilhan chose? Spoiler alert: NOT the DNA test.
Instead, she riffled through the Democrats’ Big Book of Guilty Responses™, and picked all of them: “Racism!” “Sexism!” “Islamophobia!” “But Trump!” “You’re a Nazi!” “I can’t recall.” Plus, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” (This last one is known as “the Hillary Gambit.”)
I’ve seen one report that the DHS investigators looked through Ilhan’s trash, which might mean that they’re looking for a sample of her DNA. If so… YES!
So where does that leave us? Here are the options as I see them:
1. If Ilhan Omar’s “corrected” birthdate is false, then her citizenship could be revoked and she could be deported for lying about being under 18 to gain that citizenship, and also for lying about it again in 2019 to falsely “correct” it.
2. If Ilhan Omar’s “corrected” birthdate is genuine, then her citizenship could be revoked because her father was a war criminal who falsely obtained his citizenship, which would invalidate the status of every family member who came in under him.
3. If we ignore both of those scenarios – pursuant to the Democrat policy of “All Leftists Are Above the Law™” – Omar’s citizenship could STILL be revoked in the near-certain event that DNA proves that she married her brother to aid in his following the family tradition of committing immigration fraud in America.
In the meantime, we can all entertain ourselves watching the Democrats beclown themselves in faux outrage over the constitutional crisis caused by a far-left judge signing off on a warrant to search Ilhan’s house.
Oh, did I not mention that? Yes, the judge who had to admit that there was plenty of evidence justifying that search is a leftist DC judge who clerked for Obama and donated to Hillary.
So the corrupt leftists who celebrated when fellow Democrats raided Mar-a-Lago (with special attention paid to Melania’s underwear drawer, for some reason), and Rudy Giuliani’s house, and the house of a Catholic abortion protester, not to mention cooking up the fraudulent Crossfire Hurricane and Steele Dossier scandals, are now shocked – SHOCKED! I tells ya – at the thought of a crooked congresswoman being legally investigated.
And the phony cherry on top of this enormous hypocrisy sundae? None other than Barack Obama, who put out a laughably brazen tweet-lecture on the subject, which began with the following sentence, which I swear I’m not making up: “It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say.”
Good lord!
You might want to sit this one out, Barry.
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