{"id":2517039,"date":"2025-12-03T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/painful-video-ilhan-omar-willing-to-chat-but-watch-her-telling-reaction-when-asked-about-marrying-her-brother\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:57:25","slug":"painful-video-ilhan-omar-willing-to-chat-but-watch-her-telling-reaction-when-asked-about-marrying-her-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/painful-video-ilhan-omar-willing-to-chat-but-watch-her-telling-reaction-when-asked-about-marrying-her-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Painful Video: Ilhan Omar Willing to Chat, But Watch Her Telling Reaction When Asked About Marrying Her Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpainful-video-ilhan-omar-willing-to-chat-but-watch-her-telling-reaction-when-asked-about-marrying-her-brother%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2517039&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar&#8217;s reaction when questioned about allegations that she married her brother to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >commit immigration fraud<\/a>. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-activist-rogan-ohandley-talks-electoral-college-big-tech-more-with-oan\/\" title=\"Conservative activist Rogan O\u2019Handley talks Electoral College, Big Tech &amp; more with OAN\">conservative activist<\/a>, Laura Loomer, posted a video showing Omar being confronted by reporter Charles Downs with President Trump&#8217;s claim of the controversial marriage. Omar remained silent and did not deny the accusation, though she responded firmly and defiantly when asked about Trump, asserting she was not going anywhere and criticizing him as &#8220;losing his mind&#8221; and being &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with her.<\/p>\n<p>The piece highlights Omar&#8217;s refusal or inability to address the serious fraud allegation directly, implying that this silence is telling. It also notes that while this claim has not been legally proven, insiders within the Minnesota Somali community suggest the story is credible. The author contrasts Omar&#8217;s vocal criticisms of Trump and others with her silence on the marriage question,suggesting that this inconsistency is meaningful amid ongoing concerns about fraud involving Somali immigrants in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar always has plenty to say when it comes to Donald Trump, but it&rsquo;s a different story when the subject hits too close to home.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted Tuesday by conservative activist Laura Loomer drove that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-praises-companies-for-standing-up-to-ga-while-critics-warn-they-are-playing-into-chinas-hands\/\" title=\"Biden praises companies for standing up to Ga. while critics warn they are playing into China\u2019s hands\">point home<\/a> when it showed the congresswoman being questioned about one of the most explosive accusations against her: that she married her own brother as part of an immigration fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Omar&rsquo;s response &mdash; shutting down like a clam shell &mdash; said it all.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jihadi Congresswoman Ilhan Omar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?\">@IlhanMN<\/a> became belligerent, saying, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be around longer than Trump,&rdquo; &ldquo;Trump is deranged,&rdquo; and &ldquo;I am not going anywhere,&rdquo; after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoomerUnleashed?\">@loomerunleashed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCharlesDowns?\">@thecharlesdowns<\/a> asked her today if President Trump was right when he said she married her brother. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JTvW4DguDI\">https:\/\/t.co\/JTvW4DguDI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aCLUaz5vtZ\">pic.twitter.com\/aCLUaz5vtZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1995964737516081427?\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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operation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Congresswoman, do you agree with President Trump&rsquo;s assumption that you married your brother to get [him] citizenship?&rdquo; Downs asked.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was stony silence as Omar and her entourage waited for an elevator in the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The silence disappeared, though, when Downs followed up by asking if Omar intended to leave the country &mdash; an allusion to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/get-ilhan-omars-latest-comments-somalia-trump-says-time-go-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump&rsquo;s comments<\/a> in the past, which he repeated Tuesday during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-fieriest-trump-comments-history-just-came-cabinet-meeting-potus-utterly-scorched-omar-somalis-calling-garbage-stinking-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cabinet meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When the subject is Trump, Omar isn&rsquo;t quiet at all.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going anywhere,&rdquo; she told Downs. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t waste your energy on me.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will be here probably longer than Trump, because I am, like, a quarter of his age.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s an old man losing his mind. I don&rsquo;t know why he&rsquo;s obsessed with me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of life expectancy, the 43-year-old Omar has a point (though she&rsquo;s more than half the president&rsquo;s 79 years, not a quarter).<\/p>\n<p>But everything else? To reasonable Americans unblinded by partisan hatred, Trump has shown no sign of losing his mind.<\/p>\n<p>(After four years of the Joe Biden follies, the country knows good and well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/panic-mode-kjp-scrambles-cover-biden-freezes-obama-says-videos-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what that looks like<\/a> in the White House.)<\/p>\n<p>Is he &ldquo;obsessed&rdquo; with Omar? The claim is rich coming from a woman who&rsquo;s done nothing but hog a spotlight since she came to Congress &mdash; a spewing fountain of bile, splashing her hatred at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jawdropper-rep-ilhan-omar-tweets-deletes-message-hook-nosed-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ilhan-omar-calls-charlie-kirk-mourners-full-st-says-fed-remember-fondly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservatives<\/a>, the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ilhan-omar-declares-america-one-worst-countries-world-hasnt-returned-somalian-utopia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as a whole<\/a>, and Donald Trump in particular.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s really important here, though, is Omar&rsquo;s inability, or unwillingness, to answer the first question &mdash; about marrying her own brother.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s never been proved in a court of law, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bombshell-ilhan-omar-marry-brother-says-personal-friend-finally-gone-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all indications are<\/a> that the story is true.<\/p>\n<p>Since &ldquo;Somalia&rdquo; is more a geographical area than a functioning country (there&rsquo;s a reason Omar&rsquo;s family and so many of her countrymen have fled it for the West), documentary evidence could be impossible to find.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/somali-community-leader-yes-ilhan-omar-married-brother-keep-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports from inside<\/a> the Minnesota Somali immigrant community point toward a sham marriage between the siblings to enable Omar&rsquo;s brother, Ahmed Elmi, to stay in the country.<\/p>\n<p>That would be criminally fraudulent. But considering the scale of the current scandal surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/100-responsible-massive-fraud-government-employees-rip-tim-walz-shreds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fraud among Somalis<\/a> in Gov. Tim Walz&rsquo;s Gopher State, it would be almost normal.<\/p>\n<p>An elevator-landing interview might not be the place for a criminal defense, but Omar had the opportunity Tuesday to at least issue a firm denial of the charge.<\/p>\n<p>She could even have couched it in more vitriol directed against Trump if she chose. After all, it was only seconds later that she accused him of &ldquo;losing his mind&rdquo; to an unhealthy obsession with her own fine self.<\/p>\n<p>But she didn&rsquo;t. 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