Former Minnesota Democrat Says Omar Allegation Is Likely True

Former Minnesota state lawmaker Joe Radinovich said he believes an allegation that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother as part of an immigration-fraud scheme is almost certainly true, while acknowledging doubts about the federal investigation’s timing and credibility. Omar and her campaign deny wrongdoing, and the allegation has not been established through publicly disclosed evidence. Radinovich made the statement in posts on X on October 29. He urged Democrats not to dismiss the allegation and said he was confident it was true. He also raised separate questions about Omar’s finances, saying publicly available answers had not resolved them. Those financial claims are distinct from the marriage allegation and were not substantiated in the reports. Briana Rose Lee, a Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor activist who worked on Omar’s campaign, challenged Radinovich’s assessment, calling the allegations baseless and the investigation a politically motivated witch hunt. Radinovich replied that he believed the Trump Justice Department had little credibility and questioned whether the search was appropriately timed, but noted that a federal judge had approved it. Omar’s campaign also...