Free Beacon
Scott. W. Johnson
President Donald Trump is an occasional practitioner of an unsparing form of political logic. Having taken an interest in the massive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators in Minnesota, he has followed up with unfriendly commentson Minnesota fifth district Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.). "She comes in, does nothing but bitch, she’s always complaining," the president told a crowd in Mount Pocono, Penn., on Tuesday. "We oughta get her the hell out. She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother. Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister?"
Omar is Somali fraud Exhibit A, and her district was the center of gravity in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case that I wrote about in the Washington Free Beacon in March. Despite what you may think, Omar has made a valuable contribution to our history. She goes to show that there is such a thing as a new kind of political scandal. Mark Twain famously observed: "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." And he hadn’t even met Omar.
I’m talking about Omar’s marriage to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Trump may have garbled the specifics, but he got the upshot of the story right. Omar’s family brought Elmi over from London in 2009 to try to extract him from a gay lifestyle, and that is the context in which the congresswoman tied the knot with him.
I started writing about Omar for Power Line, the website to which I am an original contributor, in August 2016 when she defeated 22-term incumbent and feminist heroine Phyllis Kahn in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for a seat in the Minnesota state legislature. A reader had directed me to a post on a message board called SomaliSpot, which has since been removed from the Internet. It asserted that Omar had married her husband, Ahmed Hirsi—the father of her children—in 2002, but that she had then married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009. Her campaign website advertised Hirsi as her husband and made no mention of Elmi.
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