Ilhan Omar
November 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Over the past week I posted an expanded and rewritten version of the speech I gave at Susan Vass’s fourth annual Commenter Conference this past August — Four Illuminations in the Life of an Online Scribe. I am afraid I enjoyed it more than readers and did could easily have expanded it to cover the four trials featuring Somali defendants that I have covered over the past ten years. They
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November 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ilhan Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 “in their faith tradition.” Their marriage represented a merger of Somalia’s two largest clans: the Darood (Omar) and Hawiye (Hirsi). The clans are rivals. They don’t get along. The merger was therefore one source of Omar’s political appeal to Somalis in 2016. Moreover, according to my Somali friends, Hirsi was the brains of the operation before Omar blew him off for her third
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November 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
IV. Ilhan Omar I can’t say anything good about Keith Ellison except this. Ilhan Omar is worse. She goes to show that there is such a thing as a new kind of political scandal. Mark Twain famously observed: “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” And he hadn’t even met Ilhan Omar. I’m talking about Omar’s marriage
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October 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I generally agree with Bill Glahn’s observation in “The dog that never barked” (the adjacent post): “Not a single person in authority, not any elected official, no one in law enforcement, the judiciary, the state bureaucracy, the media, or elsewhere have linked these fraud scandals [i.e., Feeding Our Future, housing consultants, autism clinics, etc.] to any ethnic group or groups.” A discreet silence obtains in the case of the frauds
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October 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On trial with Feeding Our Future fraud ringleader Aimee Bock earlier this year, Salim Said sought to introduce the video (below) featuring Ilhan Omar in his defense. The video shows Omar talking up Said’s Safari restaurant in Somali and bringing meals outside to waiting cars. Lead prosecutor Joe Thompson objected to Omar’s part in the video as an attempt to graft her prestige as a member of Congress onto Said’s
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October 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Defendant Salim Said was one of the most successful players in the Feeding Our Future fraud. On trial with fraud ringleader Aimee Bock earlier this year, Said sought to introduce the campaign video (below) featuring Ilhan Omar in his defense. The video shows Omar talking up Said’s Safari restaurant in Somali and bringing meals outside to waiting cars. Lead prosecutor Joe Thompson objected to Omar’s part in the video as
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September 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In 2009 Christopher Caldwell published Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. The book is well written, in an almost aphoristic style. Chapter 4 is titled “Fear masquerading as tolerance.” In chapter 4’s section on Diversity and self-loathing, Caldwell writes: Diversity described both a sociological reality (there were more foreign looking people around) and an ideology (there ought to be more foreign looking people around). The
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September 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The brief video clip below catches Ilhan Omar in the act of being herself. The New York Post covers her interview with Mehdi Hasan here and Bill Glahn attends to it here, but there is no substitute for hearing these vile haters pour out the hatred in the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. They think they are offering needed perspective on Charlie Kirk, but decent people are more likely
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September 11, 2025 — Bill Glahn
She just can’t help herself. From the New York Post, Ilhan Omar cruelly stomps on Charlie Kirk’s legacy: ‘Full of s–t’. The occasion was a recorded internet video interview. Quotes from the Post, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) went on a cruel rant about murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, scoffing at the notion that his core mission was to have a civil debate on politics. “There are a lot of people
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September 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
See if you can spot the errors in Ilhan Omar’s Instagram video responding to the Free Beacon and other reports that her net worth is now in a range of $6 million-$30 million. It’s difficult to take her hectoring condescension as she ladles out the misinformation with a dollop of vulgarity for good measure. This is the Minnesota Fifth District fraudster we have come to know since August 2016. The
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September 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As I recall, Scott began following the career of Ilhan Omar when she was a primary candidate for the Congressional seat that she now holds. Scott had criticized Omar here at Power Line, so, at the end of a political event at which she spoke, he came up to Omar and, as a courtesy, introduced himself. Omar responded with, “You’re the man who made me famous.” (Scott can correct me
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September 1, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Since her election to Congress in 2018, rumors of Ilhan Omar’s sudden wealth have circulated. We now have proof, from an unimpeachable source: Ilhan Omar herself. The New York Post reports, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth skyrockets to as much as $30 million – months after denying she was a millionaire. The entirety of that $30 million figure is represented by her husband Tim Mynett’s various business interests. Mynett is
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August 31, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Regarding last week’s horrific Minneapolis Catholic church/school shooting, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says that now is “not the moment to point fingers.” Unless she is the one pointing them. From the New York Post, Rep. Ilhan Omar slams Trump official for pointing out Minnesota church shooter’s trans identity: ‘Not the moment to point fingers.’ Apparently, she was on CNN this Sunday morning, following Seb Gorka. The Post reports Rep. Ilhan Omar
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August 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Daily journalism is an ephemeral commodity. Occasionally, we need reminders to address an enduring issue. Such is Ilhan Omar and this is a reminder. Omar has managed the seemingly impossible task of paving new ground in congressional scandal. In four intensely reported investigative columns for PJ Media, David Steinberg explored the evidence making out Omar’s fraudulent 2009 marriage to her brother. The 2019 post below represented the culmination of David’s
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August 22, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Ilhan Omar is outraged by election shenanigans. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Ilhan Omar condemns DFL’s foray into Minneapolis politics. DFL here stands for Democratic-Farmer-Labor, the branding of Minnesota’s Democratic party. Rep. Omar is big mad that the state party removed the city party’s endorsement of her man, state Sen. Omar Fateh, for Minneapolis mayor in a race on the November ballot. The Star Tribune quotes the Congresswoman, It is
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August 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ilhan Omar is the alleged co-author of the memoir This Is What America Looks Like, published by HarperCollins in 2020. The memoir was written “with Rebecca Paley,” in a style and tone that bear absolutely no resemblance to the voice of Ilhan Omar. The memoir covers the 2016 controversy that we pushed into the mainstream press about her marriage to her brother in a few cursory pages. If you seek
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August 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Over the past week I have been reviewing the terrorism and fraud trials that feature an almost entirely Somali cast of defendants. The continuing case of Rep. Ilhan Omar falls under the same heading — the heading of fraud and deception. Having covered all of these for Power Line, I find a unifying theme. The unifying theme was articulated by Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson at the Abdiaziz Farah
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