Overview

• The president used Truth Social to allege Omar married her brother to gain citizenship, posting after she criticized Republicans in the fallout from Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
• News outlets and previous fact-checks report there is no credible evidence for the accusation, emphasizing that Omar’s naturalization predates her marriages.
• Omar’s documented timeline: asylum in 1995, U.S. citizenship in 2000, a 2002 faith-based union with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, a 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, legal divorce from Elmi in 2017, a 2018 legal marriage to Hirsi, a 2019 divorce, and a 2020 marriage to Tim Mynett.
• Rumors center on Elmi being her brother, yet repeated investigations have found no substantiation for that claim, and Omar called the allegation “absolutely false and ridiculous” in 2016.
• Conservative commentator Steven Crowder shared purported documents online that he claimed supported the rumor, but outlets report the materials do not establish proof.