(Free Beacon) I have never worked in crisis communications, but I suspect the worst possible lede sentence to read about a client must be this one: “New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.”
As Minneapolis’ Star Tribune reported on page one over the weekend, the Minnesota Democrat was caught filing joint taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband Ahmed Hirsi, despite the fact that she was legally married at the time to another man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. And yes, there is a smattering of evidence that Omar and Elmi are possibly siblings. No one seems to be able to prove that they aren’t (all the hard evidence is in war-torn Somalia), and bizarrely enough, Omar is the one keeping the rumor from being definitively debunked.
