Omar addresses rumors she's related to her ex-husband: 'Not to my knowledge'

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) waved off rumors that she married her brother, replying, “Not to my knowledge,” when asked if she was related to her ex-husband.

Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, and they divorced in 2017. The rumor that he was her biological brother, and that they married to fraudulently get him citizenship, has dogged her for years. It gained increasing credence when police raided her Washington, D.C. home on Oct. 12 under a judicially authorized warrant. In an interview with MS Now, Omar discussed the supposed origins of the claim, dismissing it as a conspiracy theory.