Ilhan Omar faces mounting allegations she married her biological brother, Ahmed Saeed Almi, in 2009 to prevent his return to Somalia, a claim supported by community member Abda Hakeem Azman and a minister citing the country's dangers. Despite Omar dismissing similar accusations as fake news in 2019, the speaker insists this act constitutes immigration fraud and mocks her deflection, demanding she explicitly admit or deny the marriage to stop the narrative of delegitimization. Ultimately, the episode suggests that continued evasion undermines her credibility while ignoring the serious implications of potential familial ties within the U.S. Congress. [Automatically generated summary]
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Denying Marriage To Keep Brother00:04:23
Congresswoman Elon Omar spent the last two years denying serious allegations that she married her own brother so he could stay in the United States.
Laura, when the accusation was first made a few years ago, Democrat and Congresswoman Elon Omar tried to knock it down by calling it absurd.
Well, now others are talking like Abda Hakeem Azman, a prominent member of the Minneapolis Somali community who is now on the record telling the Daily Mail that in 2009, Elon Omar married her biological brother Ahmed Saeed Almi.
Uh-oh.
Got some more evidence coming out.
Yeah, the evidence is stacking up against you.
Stacking up.
Way the walls is caving in on you.
That room is getting smaller and smaller.
I bet you're starting to feel claustrophobic right now.
Yeah.
Can't breathe.
Feel like someone's standing on your chest.
The member of the Somalia community.
Yes.
That came forward.
So yeah.
His name is Abda Akeem Asami.
Some shit.
Think I got it right.
Don't try to pronounce the names.
Just say a man or brother.
Those names are ridiculous.
Don't say that.
It looks like a kid wrote these names down and misspelled everything.
Yeah, just say Abda Akeem Asami.
I think that's how you say it.
He's a member of the Somalia community up in Minnesota.
And he's, I think it's a he.
He or she.
That sounds like a he, Abda?
That's he, ain't.
He came forward and said, yeah, she married a brother.
Yeah.
And I know the I know the minister that married him.
Yeah.
But the minister said, hold up.
I want to get involved in this.
I don't want to get involved in this.
Hey, everybody, reason why.
Hey, hey, hey, Omar, listen up.
Miss Omar, look, I know why you did it.
I know why you married your brother.
Yeah, I know why.
She married him so he wouldn't have to go back to that shithole country.
Hey, I don't blame you, man.
That after coming to America, the land of opportunity, the home of the free, you got so much opportunity here.
You go back to Somalia, it ain't shit there.
Yeah.
That's why you...
Terrorist activity, murders, crimes against women.
Yeah, America rescued you from war and famine.
I know when you told all your constituents that this country's full of Nazis and white supremacists, I know you're full of shit.
Why else would you marry your brother so he can come here?
Someone have to go back to that shithole in Somalia.
Yeah, brother name is Ahmed Shaid Almeid.
I told you to start reading them names, man.
Just say brother, Agmik.
You married Akmik so you wouldn't have to go back, man.
That's a noble thing you did, but that's wrong.
It's called immigration fraud.
You're a member of Congress.
You're an American citizen.
You swore to be a great citizen of this country.
And you are, and look what you do.
You marry your damn brother.
I can understand why she did what she did, though, man.
Because Somalia?
Yeah.
Now, her real husband, who she married in Somalia, his name is Aghmik Hershey.
Why you all these people named Aghmik?
Would y'all come up with some better first names, man?
Better name.
That pride name's probably.
They all sound the same to me.
No, it's probably dope in Somalia.
Yeah, it don't sound dope to me.
You can print it to America.
Yeah.
Good, strong, all-American name like Kevin.
Look here.
All you have to do...
All we want to hear is this.
You know what's funny?
When these new allegations came out, this is what she tweeted, man.
What's the tweet?
This is what she tweeted, man.
Read the tweet.
Come on.
Train people to generate fake news stories in order to delegitimize me and those I represent isn't a good look.
Desperation is sad and mobilizing too.
Sound like you deflected me.
This is all we want, Omar.
Just send out a tweet.
I did not marry my brother so he could stay here and not go back to that shithole country in some y'all.
Tweet Justifying Saving Him00:01:11
Don't I?
I'll give you something even simpler.
I did not marry my brother.
That's all you gotta say.
Just tweet it.
You won't say it.
You keep deflecting.
Say it.
Yeah, y'all did not marry my brother.
That's all I want to hear.
Yes or no?
You always on Twitter.
Just tweet it out.
You on Twitter 24/7.
Yes or no?
Tweet it.
You married your brother.
You know you did.
Everybody knows it.
Just come out there with a speech.
Look.
Everybody.
Yeah.
You know, put that sad face on like you really hurt, which really you're not.
Yeah, just don't.
Say, look.
Back in whatever year it was, I married my brother.
It was to save him from that war.
Shut up.
It's my love.
I married my brother.
It sounds horrible from the outside, but I did it to save him.
I did it to save my brother from that shithole country.
I think Americans, they will feel bad for you.
Yeah.
But everybody right there say, get there, go back where you came from.