Trump repeats false claim that Ilhan Omar married her brother

President Trump on Wednesday repeated the claim that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by illegally marrying her brother.

Trump made the statement while responding to a question from a reporter from the One America News Network before leaving for a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina.

Reporter Emerald Robinson asked the president “if the administration was looking into possible immigration fraud committed by Ilhan Omar for possibly marrying her brother.”

“Well, there’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it,” Trump said.

“I hear she was married to her brother. You’re asking me a question about it. I don’t know, but I’m sure there’s somebody who will be looking at that,” he added.

Trump’s statement comes amid his ongoing feud with a group of freshman congresswomen known as “the Squad,” which includes Omar. Last weekend, Trump wrote on Twitter that the congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how​ it is done​.”

Trump’s tweet prompted House Democrats to adopt a resolution condemning the statement as “racist.”

The claim that Omar illegally wed her brother so he could gain American citizenship first surfaced on conservative blogs in 2016, when she was running for the Minnesota state legislature.

In a statement that year, Omar called it “baseless rumors” that “are absolutely false and ridiculous.”

Omar then said she had married her current partner, Ahmed Hirsi, in the eyes of her Muslim faith in 2002 — but never legally married him. Their partnership ended in 2008.

Omar then legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, but that union ended in 2011, according to her statement.

“Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive,” she said at the time.

The same year Elmi and Omar split, she reconciled with her first husband, and the pair are still together.

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