US President Donald Trump has reignited a long-running controversy over Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, posting a scathing attack on his Truth Social platform in which he repeated a widely debunked claim about her personal life.
“Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence,” Trump wrote. “
"Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The allegation that Omar married her brother to commit immigration fraud has circulated for years, but repeated fact-checks and investigations have found no credible evidence to support the claim.
The renewed focus on Omar comes as she continues to be one of the most polarising figures in US politics.
Trump's attack comes on the heels of, Omar reacting to Kirk’s assassination during an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan on his Zeteo platform. She condemned Republican attacks on the left in the aftermath of the shooting, calling them “full of s***.”
“You have people like Nancy Mace, who constantly harass, you know, people that she finds inferior and wants them not to exist in this country or ever,” Omar told Hasan, as reported by the Hill.
“And, you know, you have people like Trump, who has incited violence against people like me. And so, you know, these people are full of s***, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness,” she adde
Born in Somalia, Omar fled civil war as a child and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before settling in the US in the 1990s. She became the first African refugee elected to the House of Representatives in 2018, and today serves on key committees including Budget and Education and Workforce.
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