Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was asked about reports of her having an affair with a married Washington, D.C., consultant and offered a terse denial.
Sitting for what proved to be an opportune interview with Minneapolis-based WCCO, the Democratic congresswoman was asked about her tangled web of relationships with men.
“Are you separated from your husband? Are you dating somebody?” WCCO reporter Esme Murphy asked Omar.
Murphy asked two questions in succession, though it was reported in July that she had separated from her husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi.
“No, I am not,” Omar replied. “As I said yesterday, I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it.”
The question comes after stunning allegations were unveiled in a divorce filing on Tuesday that the anti-Semitic Muslim lawmaker is a homewrecker who has openly pranced about Washington, D.C. with her beau since at least March.
Dr. Beth Mynett, the wife of longtime Omar political aide and consultant Tim Mynett, leveled the accusation.
Mynett said her husband told her of the affair in April, but a video shared by the Daily Mail showed Omar dining with Mynett’s husband and holding his hand.
In the Facebook photo above, Omar is seen sitting with Tim Mynett, who is the man on her left, at an event hosted by CAIR-Washington.
But Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress in 2018, has been shameless over her intertwined personal relationships.
“You seem completely unphased and unbowed by negative publicity about your personal life that you don’t want to comment on. How do you do it?” asked Murphy.
“I know who I am. The people who I love know who I am and what I care about,” she replied. “I have three beautiful little children and a family to care for, so for me, my focus is doing the work that I feel I was destined to do.”
Omar was already dealing with tax issues, having filed joint tax returns with Hirsi, the father of her three children, while still married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — there have been persistent allegations that Elmi is Omar’s biological brother and that they wed so he could enter the U.S.
Omar denies these claims.
The lawmaker is not only facing a scorned wife because Tim Mynett had previously worked for Omar’s congressional campaign, and there are questions about approximately $230,000 his consulting company, E. Street Group, received from the campaign since 2018 — for consulting, digital communications, online advertising and travel expenses.
On Wednesday, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint against Omar with the Federal Election Commission, claiming she used campaign money to fund her dalliance with the consultant, according to the Daily Caller.
Specifically, Omar’s campaign began making payments to E. Street Group for “travel expenses” on April 1st — less than a week later, on April 7, Tim Mynett confessed to his wife that he was “romantically involved with and in love with” Omar, according to her divorce filing.
“If Ilhan for Congress reimbursed Mynett’s LLC for travel so that Rep. Omar would have the benefit of Mynett’s romantic companionship, the expenditures must be considered personal in nature,” NLPC stated in its complaint, according to the Daily Caller.
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