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Isn’t it curious how the national media takes zero interest in Ilhan Omar’s tax irregularities? — 44 Comments

  1. It is also being reported that one of the men she married was her brother

  2. Yep, for the media to address this would lead them to have to answer all kinds of questions about certain groups (Muslims, immigrants) that they have zero interest in critically analyzing.

    So they play they old ‘move along nothing to see here folks’ game whereas if this were an ‘R’ every elected Republican down to dog catcher in Glendive, Montana would be asked about it.

  3. Omar’s hit the Trifecta: Woman; Muslim; Democrat. Which equals “untouchable”.

  4. This “American exceptionalism” that people keep trying to bash me over the head with is pretty powerful, I would admit.

  5. Narrative, it’s all about promoting the narrative. Taxes must be for the stiffs to pay. Laws, who needs any stinking laws?

  6. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has determined that the tax fraud and immigration fraud charges against Omar are true.

    The Strib realizes that these charges will damage the Minnesota DFL (aka the MN Democratic Party) in the 2020 election.

    The timid article in today’s Star Tribune is the first step in getting her to resign before the 2020 elections.

  7. That the national media is ignoring Omar’s criminality is, IMO of less importance than that the relevant State and Federal agencies have yet to announce an investigation into her activities.

  8. I’ve lived and worked in and around Minneapolis my whole life. There is no way she can’t get past this with a well-scripted press conference. A few tears, a few references to adjusting to a new culture and it will all be forgotten by Labor Day.

  9. There is no way she can’t get past this with a well-scripted press conference

    I guess Betsy Hodges’ press conferences weren’t well-scripted enough.

  10. Betsy didn’t have nearly all the intersectionality going for her that Omar does.

  11. Can you imagine what the headlines would look like if a Republican had claimed on his/her tax returns that Person A was his/her spouse while still married to Person B?

    I couldn’t imagine it would get much press at all…unless it was a tax dodge scheme or a sex scandal.

    On the surface, it looks like the latter. But just going from her wiki, it looks like the guy on the tax return is her first husband, with whom she has 3 kids. They divorced, she married another guy, but soon reconciled with the first husband…apparently without legally divorcing the 2nd one.

    Wiki says she had another child with the Husband #1 at that time, so it sounds like the guy on the tax return was her spouse in every way except legally for a short period. They lived together had kids, etc. So they filed joint returns. Meh.

    If I found out Trump filed a joint return with Marla while still being married to Ivanka, it wouldn’t even register on the outrage scale.

  12. If I found out Trump filed a joint return with Marla while still being married to Ivanka, it wouldn’t even register on the outrage scale.

    That depends on how much they will pay for you to go against it. If the price is high enough…

  13. Also Manju bun, I notice you have been dodging the question of whether you want me to debrief you later on. It’s not that scary is it?

  14. Manju:

    You’re actually a very amusing person.

    Of course it would be a non-story if it came out that, on Trump’s federal tax returns, he’d filed jointly as being married to one woman while actually being married to another.

  15. Manju:

    The guy on the tax return who was supposedly her husband was not and never had been legally married to her, although they did have children together. She was legally married to another person.

    She later—in 2018—married that first person, the one she had previously claimed on tax returns as her husband when he was not and when she was actually married to someone else.

    Her explanation is that she had a religious marriage and a religious divorce but not a legal one. That’s very nice, but it’s not what the IRS is interested in nor is it what the law is interested in. The IRS only allows common law filings in states that allow it, and Minnesota doesn’t allow it. Nor, of course, does it allow filing as a common law spouse with one person while actually legally married to another.

    Some of the background can be found here as well as this.

  16. Also, her marriage certificate has been leaked. It appears not to have been a “religious” marriage at all, given that the officiator did not have a Muslim name, but a very Western-sounding one.

    Ilhan Omar is a fraud. And she’s gotten away with it, so far. Probably not for much longer.

  17. The msm has decided this is a story not fit to print. Move along, nothing to see here, you’re blocking traffic. manju the robot has other such stories to dismiss elsewhere.

  18. Skippo on June 12, 2019 at 5:45 pm said:
    I’ve lived and worked in and around Minneapolis my whole life. There is no way she can’t get past this with a well-scripted press conference. A few tears, a few references to adjusting to a new culture and it will all be forgotten by Labor Day.
    * * *
    Remember that Northam is still governor of Virginia.
    Democrats have limitless ability to ignore scandals that would derail their agendas.
    And you don’t even have to be “intersectional” to benefit.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/virginia-scandal-northam-fairfax.html

    ‘It Just Went Poof’: The Strange Aftermath of Virginia’s Cascade of Political Scandals

    The NYT passes quickly from “wasn’t that curious?” to rampant hagiography.

  19. The guy on the tax return who was supposedly her husband was not and never had been legally married to her, although they did have children together.

    They lived like husband and wife. Like Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed.

    Her explanation is that she had a religious marriage and a religious divorce but not a legal one. That’s very nice, but it’s not what the IRS is interested in nor is it what the law is interested in.

    Right. Sounds like a technicality. Does is even rise to the criminal? She pays a fine.

    It’s amazing what you guys get worked up about.

  20. Some of the background can be found here as well as this.

    So I followed your first link, Neo. This guy is saying that she married her brother. Now, that would be news.

    And this is in-line with my original comment. The stuff you are talking about is non-news…unless its evidence of a deeper scandal: financial or sex.

    So the reason the msm hasn’t picked this up is because as a stand-alone story its, well, non-news.

    I’m sure if she really did marry her brother there is someone in the RWing establishment besides conspiracy loons like Mollie Hemingway who will be able to demonstrate it. Until then the rest of us will just treat it like Birtherism thankyouverymuch.

  21. Manju – you obviously aren’t reading Power Line over the last few years – they covered all the points you raised, with pretty convincing evidence (pictures, documents, etc).
    Also, most of the news articles on the tax returns scandal point out that Minnesota does not recognize Living Together as equivalent to Marriage (unlike states that do allow Common Law Marriages, and even those have rules about it which the IRS is not necessarily bound to pay attention to).

    https://jlslaw.net/divorce/is-there-common-law-marriage-in-minnesota/

    Some states recognize a couple as being married even though they do not have a marriage certificate or solemnization of the marriage in front of witnesses. Couples who have been together for a significant amount of time, have lived together and combined finances, assets and debts and held themselves out as spouses can be given the same rights as a couple who has a marriage license.

    Minnesota abolished common law marriage in 1941. In Minnesota a couple is legally married or just living together. Minnesota does, however, recognize common law marriages that were legally created outside of this state.

    Couples living in this state who are not legally married do not have the same rights and privileges as those who are legally married.

    If Omar was married to one man by law — regardless of consanguinity — at the same time she was filing taxes jointly with the other one she committed tax fraud.

    If her contracted husband was, in fact, her brother, then that marriage was illegal and void, which means she could possibly end that relationship (faith based divorce) without legally divorcing the contracted husband, but in no case in Minnesota can she claim the other guy as her legal husband just by living with him and having kids.

    From Neo’s link to Hot Air’s post, it’s really quite clear:

    Below is a timeline of Omar’s personal relationships as well as the Campaign Finance Board documents.

    Early 2000s: Omar and Ahmed Hirsi had two children but never married
    2009: Omar legally married another man, Ahmed Elmi
    2011: Omar and Elmi obtained a faith-based divorce, but no legal divorce
    2012: Omar reconciles with Hirsi and the couple had a third child
    2014, 2015: Omar and Hirsi file joint married returns
    2016: Omar’s attorney and accountants find “something needs to be corrected” in Omar’s filings
    2017: Omar files for divorce from Elmi
    2018: Omar legally marries Hirsi

  22. I love how Manju keeps using “birtherism” as a canard against conservatives, implying it was baseless and racist, when exactly the same question was raised about Barry Goldwater, George Romney, and John McCain, and the controversy was started by Obama himself in the publicity of his first book. (Don’t tell me that was a mistake the fault of his publicist. When you have published a book, you will find out that the publisher doesn’t send people out to dig up your background. They have you send them I short bio that they use.)

  23. I love how Manju keeps using “birtherism” as a canard against conservatives, implying it was baseless and racist,

    It’s a reasonable inference that Obama let the controversy fester as a bank shot. If they were looking for his long-form birth certificate, they weren’t looking for what he really wanted hidden. He relented when Gov. Abercrombie said in public print that he ought to.

    Administrators at Columbia and Occidental made it a point to keep his hard copy records in secure locations, something not done for John Kerry, Albert Gore, and George W. Bush (all of whom had transcript embarrassments). Either they’re learning from experience, or the academy’s racial neuroses finally motivated them to do something that should have been done before, or there’s something embarrassing in those transcripts, perhaps above and beyond the lousy GPA these other shnooks had.

  24. And yes,..she did marry her brother to get him illegally into the US…..still waiting for her to be arrested on this issue,…cant u derstand why it hasnt happened already

  25. MSM is more interested in Ivanka’s and Jared Kushner’s income tax releases. At least that’s what the newsfeed on my Bing search engine gives me.

  26. What is the big deal here. In law, a lie is only material if the information makes a difference in the outcome. Whether married to A or B, she is entitled to file a joint return and thus her tax outcome does not change.

  27. yes well if the media would report on all the corruption of the democrat party , they would get tard and feathered and run out of town on a rail , you don’t have to wonder why democrats always side with criminals and terrorists ,they are criminals , they should pass a law that will stop ex-president the kenyan terrorist from , interfering with his successor

  28. The media is in collusion with the Democrats to blackout anything negative about anyone who’s a Democrat regardless of the crime. They are abetting them in their coup. These people under normal circumstances would be taken up on charges of treason. We the people no longer matter to them unless they are also Democrats.

  29. Bill:

    It would depend on the income and deductions of husband A versus the income and deductions of husband B. The two men are hardly identical.

    In addition, Omar has committed other violations connected with this. See this.

  30. …loons like…

    A most palpable miss: Mollie Hemingway is one of the sanest, most astute commentators on any side of the spectrum….

    But hey, in for a penny, in for a pound….

  31. A most palpable miss: Mollie Hemingway is one of the sanest, most astute commentators on any side of the spectrum….

    And perfectly ordinary Republicans (e.g. Robert Stacy McCain and Glenn Reynolds) have been kicked off Twitter. (In McCain’s case, for ‘harassment’ that was never explained; in Reynolds’ case, for suggesting that you should run down people who mob your car). Another perfectly ordinary figure (Dennie Prager) has had his Youtubes subject to various sorts of restrictions. It’s all a sinister effort to suggest quite ordinary public discussion should be suppressed. Liberal hate = speech and conservative speech = hate.

    Kind of amazing what an unsubtle mediocrity they’re paying to troll this joint.

  32. In any event, I suspect that the usual suspects in the Democratic Party and the MSM will just “sit on” the Ilhan Omar “brouhaha”.

    Just “sit on it”.

    Not a word. (Or as few as possible.)

    Ignore it. Pretend it’s nothing really or doesn’t exist—or is pure white supremecist racist mongering (Linda Sarsour, not missing a minute, is already on track with this).

    And it will…all go away. Magic!

    Give it the Ralph Northam and Justin Fairfax (Virginia) treatment.
    The Keith Ellison (closer to home) treatment.
    The Hillary treatment.
    The Obama treatment.
    The Loretta Lynch treatment.
    The Jussie Smollett treatment.
    The Lois Lerner treatment.
    The Ben Rhodes treatment.
    Etc.

    Just ignore it…and it will—magically—go away!

    Bet on it?

  33. I don’t know why these muslim gutter rats are so protected in this country, you’d think a death cult would be exposed every way possible !! This woman does not care for this country at all and will do everything in her power to help destroy it !

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