Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar's Home; Deleted 2013 Father's Day Post Draws Attention
Photo: Daily WireFederal agents searched the Washington, D.C., home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Oct. 12 as part of a criminal investigation into possible false statements on her immigration and naturalization documents. Court records tied to the warrant, first obtained by Fox News Digital, call her Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, also known as Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. The filing does not explain the name or show she used a false identity. Two people familiar with the probe told Fox News Digital the first name may be her legal name, but her office disputes that. Asked on Friday for her real name, Omar said it is Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. A June 2013 Father's Day post by Omar thanked her father, "aabo" (Somali for father) Nur Said, a name matching part of her ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi's name. Omar married Elmi in 2009. Critics have claimed he is her brother and that the marriage was meant to win him a green card, which he never received. Asked whether she married her brother, Omar said not to her knowledge. She called the claims right-wing conspiracy theories and described the Justice Department as corrupt.
Left-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing; only alternative/independent and right-leaning outlets had. The Daily Wire, on the right, leads with the deleted post, calling it a key piece of evidence for the claim that she married her brother. It cites the New York Post, states that federal investigators say her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and features Omar's sharply worded response. It does not say when the post was removed. ZeroHedge, the independent outlet, covers the same facts but adds caveats. It dates the deletion to Sept. 17, 2019, notes the filing does not explain the name, includes her office's dispute, and says other records list a different name for her father.
How the sides differ Right sources stress deleted-post 'evidence' and claims about her marriage; alternative sources add caveats about the filing and the 2019 deletion; left sources have not covered it.
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ZeroHedge leads with the deleted 2013 post as possible evidence but stresses caveats: the 2019 deletion date, the unexplained name in the filing, her office's dispute and other records naming her father differently.
The Daily Wire frames the deleted post as possible evidence of wrongdoing, citing the New York Post and the sibling-marriage claim, and features Omar's denials and her sharp criticism of the Justice Department.