As I recall, Scott began following the career of Ilhan Omar when she was a primary candidate for the Congressional seat that she now holds. Scott had criticized Omar here at Power Line, so, at the end of a political event at which she spoke, he came up to Omar and, as a courtesy, introduced himself. Omar responded with, “You’re the man who made me famous.” (Scott can correct me if my memory is off.)
He has had help since then, but the basics haven’t changed. Scott Pinsker sums up Ilhan’s remarkable story:
As for Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born immigrant and devout Muslim insisted that she was a dirt-poor, working-class woman still trying to pay off her student debt — and anyone who claimed otherwise was a member of “a coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign”:
“Since getting elected, there has been a coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign claiming all sorts of wild things, including the ridiculous claim I am worth millions of dollars which is categorically false,” Omar told Business Insider earlier this year.
“I am not a millionaire,” she added shortly afterward.
She hit back on claims about her personal wealth in February, encouraging critics to “try checking my public financial statements.”
OK, let’s:
Well, well, well: According to the latest financial disclosures, Omar’s net worth has now reached the astonishing height of up to $30 million. The same lady who tweeted earlier in the year, “maybe try checking my public financial statements and you will see I barely have thousands let alone millions” is now worth tens of millions of dollars.
She’s now one of the richest politicians in Congress. …
Who knew the Trump economy was so spectacular that Ilhan Omar’s net worth would skyrocket by 3,500% in just one year?
Heh. Ilhan made money the old-fashioned way: she married it. Although, to be fair, her patronage no doubt accounts for a considerable portion of her political consultant husband’s net worth. But there are stories behind that, too, starting with the fact that Tim Mynett is Omar’s fourth husband, and one of his predecessors was her brother.
Then, too:
Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday.
Also this:
A key part of the Islamic faith is forsaking alcohol, which makes Omar’s financial windfall so odd: “The vast majority of the [$30 million] wealth comes from Mynett’s two companies, a winery in California and a venture capital firm,” claimed Fox News.
Try pulling that off in Somalia!
You might get the impression that Islam’s moral strictures are less severe than they seem. Never fear, though: Ilhan tells us that her husband has now converted! But don’t be too hard on him. For a political partnership worth tens of millions of dollars, a lot of people would convert.
Will these various scandals, large and small, hurt Omar with the elderly liberal whites who constitute her base? Not at all. The thrill of voting for an exotic black woman, an African native of a foreign faith, who–to top it off!–hates America, will trump any minor peccadilloes.
