‘Unsubstantiated rumor.”
Via Daily Mail:
After President Trump repeated an unsubstantiated rumor that Ilhan Omar’s second husband was in fact her brother on Wednesday, there was fresh scrutiny on the Democratic congresswoman’s tangled personal life and marital history.
Her second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is who Trump was referring to when he made the comment.
He married Omar in a legal ceremony in Minnesota in 2009. At the time, she’d already had two children with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi and had been married and divorced from him in sharia law but their union was never legally recognized.
According to internet sleuths, Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all lived together in Fargo, where both she and Elmi studied at North Dakota State University.
In 2011, Elmi moved to London (he is a British citizen of Somali descent), Omar and Hirsi got back together and had their third child a year later.
What became of Elmi afterwards has remained somewhat of a mystery. Omar claimed in 2016, when the rumor that they were related emerged online and denied it as ‘absurd and offensive’, that he moved to the UK in 2011.
But photographs obtained by DailyMail.com prove he was in the US, in Minneapolis (the town where they got married), until 2012.