Rep. Ilhan Omar may have written her own one-way ticket back to Somalia, and I really hope it happens sooner than later. National Review’s Jim Geraghty went straight to Omar’s memoir to check her birth year, and what he found doesn’t exactly square with the version of events her staff has been peddling.
Looks like there’s some deep and dark secrets under the belt of Ilhan Omar, and trust me – we don’t want to see what’s under her belt, much less anything else.
Here’s the background… After Omar was elected to Congress (that was obviously a huge mistake or the result of brainwashing libs to the point they’ll support a terror-simp), her staff contacted a Minnesota library in May 2019 and asked them to change her birth year in public records from 1981 to 1982.
Why does that matter? Because Omar has claimed she was 17 years old when she became a U.S. citizen in the year 2000. If she was born in 1981, she was either 18 or 19, which means she wasn’t a minor, which means the story she’s been telling doesn’t hold up.
So Geraghty did what apparently no mainstream journalist has bothered to do: he read her book. Ilhan Omar birth year memoir evidence In her own memoir, Omar writes that she was eight years old when civil war broke out in Somalia, in a chapter titled “War: 1989-1991, Mogadishu, Somalia.” Mogadishu experienced severe riots in July 1989, including a mass execution known as the “Jazeera beach massacre.” Eight years old in 1989 means born in 1981. Period. That’s not a conservative talking point. That’s subtraction.
Geraghty laid it out plainly: “If, in her own words in her own autobiography, Omar was eight when this occurred in 1989, then she was born in 1981, and was 19 years old in the year 2000, when her father purportedly obtained his citizenship, not 1982 as she currently claims.”
Will Chamberlain piled on with another data point from the same memoir. Omar describes taking a three-month trip with her father to Somalia in 2011 when she was 30 years old. Thirty years old in 2011 puts her birth year at 1981 at the latest. So her own book contradicts the year her own staff changed the records to. You genuinely cannot make this up.
Commenters online noted that this gives Omar at least three different claimed ages for the year 2000: 17, 18, or 19, depending on which version of her biography you believe on any given Tuesday. Stephen L. Miller put it simply: “There is not a single journalist anywhere interested in looking into these discrepancies. Her entire biography has just been ‘Trust me.’ and that’s been good enough for all of them.”
Hard to argue with that. The mainstream media has spent years treating Omar’s life story like sacred text, and the one person who finally checked the footnotes was a guy at National Review using a calculator and her own memoir.
There’s also the separate question of whether her father was ever actually naturalized, since reportedly the government has no paperwork confirming it. Investigations are ongoing, and more details could emerge as reporters, you know, actually do their jobs for once. Don’t hold your breath waiting for CNN to lead with it.
