Tim Mynett, husband to embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was asked by Fox News Digital this week about the federal investigation reportedly centered on his wife’s immigration records and his own businesses. His answer: “Ilhan Omar came here at 12 as a child war refugee. No concerns.”
That’s a confident posture for a man whose home was searched by Homeland Security Investigations on Monday, whose in-laws are receiving grand jury subpoenas, and whose companies are now under examination by the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Start with the money, because it requires no speculation about anything. Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure reported Mynett’s interest in a winery at between $1 million and $5 million, and his stake in a venture capital advisory firm at between $5 million and $25 million. Then came amended filings. Both entries were revised to zero. Not revised downward. Not corrected by a few hundred thousand. Zero.
Her office explains that the original filing mistakenly reported the businesses’ total equity rather than Mynett’s share, and failed to account for liabilities. Maybe the records will bear that out. But that is a remarkable error to make on a form signed under penalty of law, and it runs in a convenient direction: assets reported as worth up to $30 million turn out, on review, to be worth nothing at all. Jeanine Pirro’s office is now looking at it, which is the appropriate response to a correction of that magnitude.
Then there’s the birth year. In May 2019 — months after she took her seat in Congress — Omar’s staff contacted Minnesota’s Legislative Reference Library and requested that her listed birth year be changed from 1981 to 1982. The library has acknowledged its original entry came from public reference materials without supporting documentation.
A single year sounds trivial until you line it up with her own account. Omar has said she obtained American citizenship through her father’s naturalization in 2000, and in a 2018 interview stated plainly that she became a citizen before turning 18. Born in October 1981, she turned 18 in 1999 — before her father naturalized. Born in October 1982, she turned 18 in 2000.
Depending on the exact date of that naturalization, one of those timelines works with her story and the other doesn’t. Her office asked for the one that works.
That’s not a tabloid inference. It’s a documented request, made by congressional staff, to alter a public record in a way that happens to resolve a discrepancy in the congresswoman’s citizenship narrative. The underlying federal files will settle it, and that’s presumably why investigators want them.
Omar’s response has been that Trump has smeared her for a decade and this is political intimidation. She had a different formulation in 2019, when the subject was a Republican president: no one is above the law.
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "This particular incident shows that the President clearly thinks he’s above the law." https://t.co/Xm61sv6RUp
— The Hill (@thehill) September 25, 2019
Correct. Now produce the naturalization file and the business records, and the whole thing resolves itself.
