Omar Seemingly Caught In Another Lie, Uses Les Miserables Plot As Her Own

It is not a frequent occurrence that sees The Washington Post, a newspaper known for leaning in favor of Democrats, criticize a liberal.

But that is what happened on Monday when the newspaper published a story on Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and her “American Story.”

“I grew up in an extremely unjust society, and the only thing that made my family excited about coming to the United States was that the United States was supposed to be the country that guaranteed justice to all,” she said to high school students. “So, I feel it necessary for me to speak about that promise that’s not kept.”

Promises not kept? As The Post pointed out, America has been extremely good to immigrants and in particular to Rep. Omar.

More than two decades had passed since she and her family fled civil war in Somalia, first for a Kenyan refugee camp and then America. Now she was 36, one of the youngest members of Congress and the first lawmaker to wear a hijab in the legislative body’s long history. She was also at the center of a contentious fight over American identity that pitted her against the president and, even, some in her own party.

At issue wasn’t a piece of legislation or an election. It was something bigger — a battle over the American story — who was entitled to tell it and how it would be told.

In Omar’s version, America wasn’t the bighearted country that saved her from a brutal war and a bleak refugee camp. It wasn’t a meritocracy that helped her attend college or vaulted her into Congress. Instead, it was the country that had failed to live up to its founding ideals, a place that had disappointed her and so many immigrants, refugees and minorities like her.

But it was one story that she told that had The Post scratching it’s a head and, in laymen’s terms, calling her a liar.

Five years earlier, Omar told the students, she was working for a Minneapolis city councilman who asked her to report back on problems with the courts. There, she recalled encountering a “sweet, old . . . African American lady” who had been arrested for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her “starving 5-year-old granddaughter.”

Is Omar a liar?

After spending the weekend in jail, the woman was led into the courtroom and fined $80 — a penalty she couldn’t pay. “I couldn’t control my emotions,” Omar continued, “because I couldn’t understand how a roomful of educated adults could do something so unjust.”

“Bulls—!” she recalled yelling in the courtroom.

Laughter rippled through the auditorium, then silence.

Omar’s story echoed the plot of “Les Miserables.” If true, it is also probably embellished. City officials said that police aren’t allowed to arrest people for shoplifting unless there’s a likelihood of violence or further crime. Typically, shoplifters are sentenced to attend a three-hour class.

In an interview, Omar said she may have flubbed some facts. “She might have had a prior [arrest],” Omar said. “I’m not sure. . . . The details might not have all matched, but that’s what I remember.”

“So the Washington Post just all but called Ilan Omar a lying liar who lies,” Weekly Standard reporter Mark Hemmingway said.

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It would not be the first time that Rep. Omar was accused of being a liar. In fact, she has been accused of marrying her brother to skirt immigration laws.

The rumors have been rampant since she got into elected office that she married her brother in order to circumvent immigration laws.

And now The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, who endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, says it has found new information that show the rumors could be true.

New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.

Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as “baseless rumors” first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House.

But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.

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