Rep. Ilhan Omar has said she has not left her husband Ahmed Hirsi for a prominent left-wing consultant who worked for her election campaign.
When asked in a Tuesday interview with CBS Minnesota if she was separated from her husband or dating anyone, the Minnesota Democrat said: “No, I am not. As I said yesterday, I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it.”
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Omar, 37, also refused to discuss accusations that she married her brother to commit immigration fraud.
On Tuesday, news broke of a divorce filing from a prominent left-wing Democrat who claimed her husband had been having a months-long affair with Omar. Beth Jordan Mynett claimed her husband, Tim Mynett, who is a prominent political consultant who worked for Omar’s campaign, left her for Omar in April.
“The parties physically separated on or about April 7, 2019, when Defendant told Plaintiff that he was romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar,” the divorce filing said.
A government watchdog group said Omar might have committed campaign finance fraud by spending tens of thousands of dollars on travel with Mynett’s E Street Group. In total, Omar’s campaign paid over $200,000 to the group since 2018.
It was reported in July that Omar had split with her first husband, Hirsi, for a second time. Hirsi refused to comment when asked about the alleged split, saying, “I’m sorry, I just can’t say anything.”
Hirsi was at the center of an investigation by the Washington Examiner in June that found evidence, based on dozens of documents, that he still lived with Omar even after their divorce and the congresswoman’s marriage to a second man, Ahmed Elmi.
Omar and her congressional office told the Washington Examiner she was unwilling to talk about questions surrounding her marriage.
The freshman congresswoman has also faced scrutiny over campaign finance violations by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, which fined her thousands of dollars in June for using campaign funds for personal use, including travel.
The board also found that Omar likely broke federal tax law by filing joint taxes with Hirsi when she was not legally married to him.
