Does this photo prove Trump tormentor's second marriage was a sham? Far-left Ilhan Omar is pictured with her first husband AND her second husband - as Trump accuses him of being her BROTHER and he posts from a beach

  • President Donald Trump suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar was 'married to her brother'
  • Reignited an explosive rumor that first emerged during Omar's 2016 campaign
  • Omar has failed to disprove the claims of bigamy and fraternal marriage
  • She has called the rumors 'baseless, absurd' and amounting to Islamophobia

By ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:48 EDT, 18 July 2019 | UPDATED: 20:36 EDT, 18 July 2019

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A photo has emerged that appears to show Ilhan Omar with both her first and second husbands, after Donald Trump hinted she married her brother.
Trump caused uproar yesterday when he repeated an accusation that the Democrat Congresswoman's second marriage was to her sibling.
The controversial photo first appeared on a Somali forum in 2016 that made the claim that she was in a fraternal marriage. It was taken in London according to the Instagram caption.
The post says: 'He (Omar's second husband) arrived in the United States in 2008. As soon as Ilhan Omar married him he started university at her alma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012.
'Shortly thereafter he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and later evicted. He then returned to the United Kingdom where he now lives.'
Today Omar's second husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi posted a picture soaking up the view at sunny Nyali Beach Resort in Mombasa Kenya.
He is at the center of the explosive rumor of bigamy and inter-familial marriage which Omar has called an Islamophobic slur.
Elmi is a freelance copywriter and fashionista who has written adverts for Valentino handbags, No7 and L'Oreal cosmetics.

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Ilhan Omar's conjugal arrangements were brought back into the spotlight yesterday as President Donald Trump said: 'I hear that she was married to her brother'


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Her second husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi shared this photo yesterday using the trending FaceApp - Elmi suggested the picture had looked like Angelina Jolie


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Omar in a social media posting with her children and her first and current husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi

Ilhan Omar's second husband flaunts stay at beach resort





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An Instagram story shared today by Ilhan Omar's ex-husband who appears to be on vacation at Nyali Beach Resort in Mombasa, Kenya

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Timeline of Omar's two marriages:

2002
Marries Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in a shariah law ceremony. Not accompanied by marriage certificate.
Two children together.
2008
Omar separates from Hirsi in accordance with sharia law after reaching 'an impasse in our life together.'
2009
Marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen of Somali descent, at Minnesota registry.
Documents appear to show she was still living with Hirsi.
Elmi, Hirsi and Omar all reportedly living in Fargo where she and her second husband are studying at North Dakota State University.
2011
Omar and Elmi have shariah divorce and he moves back to London.
Omar and Hirsi are reconciled.
2012
Omar and first husband have a third child.
2017
Omar and second husband Elmi obtain a legal divorce.
2018
Omar and Hirsi are legally married.










He has also written for Esquire magazine - one article about the Reading and Leeds music festivals and another about Parkland, a film starring Zac Efron.
He attended Middlesex University's film school and the North Dakota State University, according to his Linkedin profile.
Her conjugal arrangements are baffling in large part because she has failed to fully explain an apparent overlap in her unions to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (her first and current husband) and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (her second and ex-husband).
'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. 'I know nothing about it, I hear that she was married to her brother ... I don't know but I'm sure that somebody would be looking at that.'
When she married her second husband, a British national who had just arrived in the U.S., legal documents appear to show she was still living with her first husband.
And the trio all reportedly went off to live together in Fargo while Omar and her second husband were studying at the University of North Dakota.
It also appears that Omar’s father Nur Said Elmi Mohamed has the same name as her second husband’s father. He attended Arlington Senior High School in Minnesota and multiple former classmates say that is also the name of his father.
She has furiously dismissed claims she married her brother as 'baseless, absurd rumors' and accused journalists of Islamophobia.
However, she has remained evasive on the details surrounding her marriages and a campaign email obtained by the Spectator from her spokesman Ben Goldfarb shows his frustration in trying to get her out of a hole.
'Having no [sic] tried to write a statement multiple times that says, "I’m not legally married to two people but I am legally married to one and culturally married to another", I think it’s impossible.' Goldfarb writes.
She says she married Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002 in a shariah ceremony. No marriage certificate was signed and after having two children they divorced in 2008.
Within a year she had married a British-Somalian, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in a suburban Minnesota registry.

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Omar's second husband in this social media post on Instagram at Heaven - 'The World's Most Famous Gay Nightclub' according to its website


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A marriage certificate from 2009 appears to show her second marriage was officiated by a Christian minister at a Minnesota registry - despite her previous marriage and divorce being in strict accordance with Islamic tradition and shariah law


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Minnesota State Rep. Ilhan Omar greets supporters after winning her seat in Congress - she is accompanied by her children and her husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (rear right)



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The marriage certificate to her second husband dated February 12, 2009

The clinical ceremony - in contrast to her previous shariah wedding - was conducted by a Christian minister Wilecia Harris. This would seem at odds with Omar's proud faith tradition.
According to Omar, her second husband went back to the UK in 2011 after another Islamic divorce and the following year she had a third child with her first husband.
Omar has refused to comment on when and how she met the British citizen or how they became married so soon after her separation from Hirsi.
The Congresswoman has claimed that she married Elmi after she and Hirsi reached 'an impasse in our life together.'
However, this appears to be rubbished by legal documents uncovered by theWashington Examiner which show she was still living with her first husband.

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Another screen-grab from the Somali website which appears to show Omar with her second husband (bottom left panel, arrow pointed at him) - while claims have been made that her first husband can also been seen in the picture (standing rear left behind Omar who wears a blue headdress)


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A post which appears to disprove Omar's claim she could not divorce her second husband because she had been out of touch with him - this picture purportedly taken in London during the time they were not in contact

Public records show that Omar was living with Hirsi at a home in the Cedar Riverside area of Minneapolis in 2009 - the year she wed her second husband and two years before she says she re-united with Hirsi.
Furthermore, the Spectator report Omar's first husband went to live with the pair in Fargo where she and her new husband were studying at North Dakota State University.
Her second husband moved back to London after they had a shariah divorce in 2011, according to Omar.

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A 'Throwback Thursday' post shared by Omar's second husband recalling his days at Arlington High School in Minnesota

However, social media posts circulating on Alpha News appear to show that he had remained in Minnesota into late 2012.
That year she had her third child with her first husband and they were re-united in another Islamic wedding.
The explosive claims were blown wide open during a Minnesota Campaign and Public Disclosure Board investigation into her campaign finances which revealed in 2014 and 2015 she filed tax returns with her husband as Hirsi, while she was legally married to Elmi.
She did not legally divorce Elmi until 2017. She legally married Hirsi early in 2018, just one month after divorcing her second husband.
She claims the reason for her belated divorce was because she was unable to get in contact with him after he returned to the UK.

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A social media post from Omar's second husband taken in New York in 2017 purporting to be at the Trump Tower


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Ilhan Omar's second husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in a recent social media post - he is a British national and lives in London


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A social media post from 2017 shows Omar's second husband at The Ned, a five-star hotel and luxurious spa club in central London

However, social media postings uncovered by the Spectator appear to show she was in contact with her second husband and she had visited London in 2014.
In posts which were screen-grabbed from the Somalian forum where the rumor appears to have started, Omar is seen posing with Elmi in the British capital.
Not only that, but others have claimed that her first husband can also be seen with the group in London.
Elmi rapidly shutdown all of his social media accounts earlier today. Omar was entirely absent from them.



'I am legally married to one and culturally to another': How Ilhan Omar desperately tried to shut down rumors she married her BROTHER amid evidence she never really split up from her first husband she married in sharia ceremony

By Cockburn for The Spectator USA

This article first appeared in The Spectator USA on June 24, 2019.

'I'm not legally married to two people, but I am legally married to one and culturally married to another.' That's how Ilhan Omar's campaign spokesman Ben Goldfarb summarized Omar's conjugal arrangements in an email in August 2016, when Omar was running for Congress and her advisers were trying to stifle allegations of double marriage — with a man alleged to be her brother.





An internal campaign communique sent by Omar's spokesman Ben Goldfarb revealing his issues with her marital status

Omar supplied this email to the Minnesota Campaign and Public Disclosure Board's investigation into her campaign financing. That investigation concluded on June 6 by ordering Omar to refund $3,500 in misused campaign funds, and to pay a $500 fine. It also revealed that in 2014 and 2015, Omar may have broken federal and state law by filing a joint tax return with her husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi — when she was married to another man.
When conservative journalists in Minnesota raised the bigamy allegations in 2016, Omar issued a statement calling the allegations 'baseless, absurd rumors' and issued a statement accusing the journalists of 'Islamophobia'. Her statement was taken verbatim from Goldfarb's email. That same email appears to admit that the allegations are not without basis. Goldfarb describes how he tried to construct a denial based on 'real background information', but found it 'impossible':

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Social media posts from Omar's second husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi - it is not known how she met the British citizen


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Ilhan Omar's second husband posing with a friend in London, captioned 'Fashion Week larks' during London's fashion week

'…we are probably in a position where giving real background information is helpful in tying this up. That said, having no tried to write a statement multiple times that says, 'I'm not legally married to two people but I am legally married to one and culturally married to another', I think it's impossible without making it even more confusing.'
Here's the real background information about Omar's 'confusing' marital history, in her own words. In 2016, Omar told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that she had married Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (Husband 1) in their Muslim 'faith tradition' in 2002, and that after having two children, they divorced in their 'faith tradition' in 2008. No marriage certificate was issued, and there is no documentary evidence for the divorce.
In 2009, Omar married a Somali immigrant to Britain named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (Husband 2) in a wedding in an unglamorous suburban state registry. The officiator was a Christian minister named Wilecia Harris, now a pastor at the Great and Mighty Works Ministries in Richfield, Minn.
It's possible that Wilecia Harris might have performed only a civil ceremony, which would suffice under Minnesota law. It's possible that Omar and Elmi didn't know the officiant was a Christian minister. Still, given that Omar was and is a proponent of her 'faith tradition', it's strange that she seems not to have consecrated her second marriage according to Islamic law or Somali tradition. The full certificate also shows that, despite Omar's 'faith tradition', the couple seem to have been cohabiting before their marriage
Omar refuses to answer questions as to when and how she happened to meet a British subject, or why she married him so soon after separating from the father of her children. Then again, she didn't separate that much from Husband 1. Documents released on Monday seem to show that she and Husband 1 were living together in Minneapolis at the time of her marriage to Husband 2. And when Omar and Husband 2 went to college in Fargo at North Dakota State University, Husband 1 came too. That must have made for some awkward silences at the breakfast table.
According to Omar, Husband 2 went back to London in 2011 after a 'faith-based' divorce. But according to Alpha News, screenshots from Husband 2's social media show him living in Minneapolis as late as August 2012. In the same year, she had a third child with Husband 1 and turned Husband 1 into Husband 3 with, she has claimed, another 'faith tradition' marriage. Regardless of the 'faith tradition' divorce from Husband 2, she was still legally married to him in civil law. Unwittingly or not, she was, as Ben Goldfarb admitted in 2016, now married to two people at the same time.

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A social media post taken a few month's ago by Omar's second husband, simply captioned: 'Mood'

Omar has sworn that she didn't legally divorce Husband 2 until 2017 because she couldn't get in touch with him. Apart from being an admission that she knew she was still legally married to him when she made her second 'faith tradition' marriage with Husband 1 and 3 in 2012, this is implausible. Now-deleted postings appear to show that Omar went to London in 2014, and that she and Elmi (Husband 2) were in touch on social media. And this week, new evidence discovered by investigative journalist David Steinberg appears to show that Husband 2 was in Nairobi from December 2012 — and that he was in contact with Omar's sister.

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A picture taken by Omar's second husband while living in Stratford in east London

The nature of Omar's relationship to Husband 2 is clouded by as-yet unsubstantiated allegations of double marriage and immigration fraud, which Omar has consistently denied. In 2016, an anonymous writer posted photos on a Somali site alleging that Husband 2 is Omar's brother. The post and a cached copy have both been deleted, and Spectator USA cannot verify them independently, but Scott Johnson of Powerline took copies.
The posting includes photographs that appear to disprove Omar's claim that she couldn't divorce Husband 2 because she didn't know where he was. The posting also claims that Husband 2 refers on social media to Omar children by Husband 1 & 3 as his 'nieces and nephews', that his and Omar's father is called Nur Said Omar, and that her marriage to Husband 2 was false and bigamous:
'A look at her social media accounts proves that at no point were her and Ahmed Hirsi [Husband 1 and 3] living apart,' the anonymous poster to Somali Spot wrote, 'nor was she ever in any other relationship. They have always been a couple, even when she was legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi [Husband 2].' On Sunday, the Washington Examiner published what it described as 'dozens of documents' proving, the Examiner claims, that Omar was living with Husband 1 (Hirsi) while married to Husband 2 (Elmi).
Records already unearthed by David Steinberg appear to confirm that one 'Ahmed N. Elmi' studied at Arlington Senior High School in St Paul, MN. This Ahmed N. Elmi has the same birth date as the 'Ahmed N. Elmi' listed on Ilhan Omar's marriage certificate of 2008 and divorce papers of 2017. Several of his classmates confirmed to Steinberg that the father of Ahmed N. Elmi the high schooler was called Nur Said Elmi Mohamed — the same name as a name used by Ilhan Omar's father.

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A 'Throwback Thursday' post shared by Omar's second husband recalling his days at Arlington High School in Minnesota

Questioned by Alpha News, Husband 2 in London didn't deny that he had attended high school in St Paul, MN. Meanwhile, his online profile included his degree from North Dakota State University. So there can be no doubt that Ahmed Elmi the high schooler is the same Ahmed Elmi who married Ilhan Omar — and who now claims not to know her at all.
It's impossible to read this mounting pile of credible evidence without wondering if Ilhan Omar was, perhaps unknowingly, implicated in education and immigration fraud, and whether, perhaps unknowingly, she was married to two men at the same time. So Cockburn can understand why questions have been raised about Omar's domestic arrangements by investigators like Scott Johnson of Powerline; Preya Samsundar (now a GOP strategist) and Christine Baumann, formerly of Alpha News; and David Steinberg, formerly of PJ Media.
Cockburn can't understand why Omar refuses to engage directly with these accusations of immigration fraud. For three years, websites have implied that she knowingly entered a false and even incestuous marriage, possibly for immigration and educational fraud. If the accusations are false, she could sue for defamation. Instead, she pretends that the accusations don't exist — just as she pretends not to hear questions about her Minneapolis ward being a hotspot of terrorist recruitment. But they do exist, and the emails and documents Cockburn has seen suggest that Omar and her team know that at least some of the accusations may be true.
Cockburn also fails to understand why Minneapolis's leading paper, the Star-Tribune (the 'Strib'), was so slow to investigate this mountain of evidence. Which brings us back to Ben Goldfarb's email of August 2016. Goldfarb advised Omar's team how to dissuade a local reporter from digging into Omar's story:
'Someone should reach out to talk off the record [with Olson] and shut it down with him as we do with the Strib.'





Goldfarb advised Omar's team how to dissuade a local reporter from digging into Omar's story

Omar's campaign finance irregularities — and perhaps also advance information about further releases of damaging evidence — seem to have woken the Strib from its slumbers. Earlier this month, the editorial board noted that filing false tax returns is against the law. It also described the entire issue as 'worthy of greater scrutiny'. It certainly is, and one of the questions worthy of scrutiny is why the Strib took so long to address a scandal on its own doorstep, and why it allowed itself to be 'shut down' in the first place. As Omar has said, the allegations are a 'shit show'.
This article first appeared in The Spectator USA on June 24, 2019.

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