Rep. Ilhan Omar opened up to MS NOW on Wednesday in a shocking interview where she called allegations that she married her brother quote, “insane” but at the same time, strangely didn’t entirely close the door to the possibility of being related to her now ex-husband.
The interview with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes was the lefty representative’s first interview since Homeland Security agents raided her home in Washington, DC last Monday, where they reportedly seized the Minnesota Democrat’s cellphone, notebooks, personal computers and her passport.
Omar has long maintained that she became a US citizen at the age of 17 when her father was naturalized in 2000, but sources with direct knowledge of the federal raid on her DC bungalow said the Department of Justice is looking for evidence that the claim is a lie.
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