Ilhan Omar Claims She Lives “Paycheck to Paycheck” Despite Reported $30M Net Worth, Whines About Millionaires in Congress
Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday claimed that she lives “paycheck to paycheck” and has no wealth despite previously reporting a net worth of up to $30 million on a financial disclosure.
Omar previously revealed in a financial disclosure a net worth of $6 million to $30 million but later claimed that it was an “accounting error” and that she is actually worth between $18,004 and $95,000.
At the center of the discrepancy is her husband’s shady “winery” business. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, who is investigating Omar’s finances, recently said the winery was “shut down because of fraud,” revealing that they were selling empty barrels of wine to investors.
Now, the ongoing criminal fraud investigation is probing Ilhan Omar’s likely fraudulent disclosures, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed last week. President Trump further suggested that “her highly paid accountant actually reported the money that was stolen from her fraudulent activities in Minnesota.”
Omar sat for her first interview since the raid on her Washington, DC, home last Monday, with MS Now’s Chris Hayes on Wednesday. During the interview, she was also asked whether her ex-husband was her biological brother, and she gave an insane response, saying, “not to my knowledge.” Instead of just saying no, she said she isn’t sure.
In the damage control interview, Hayes was essentially answering the question and attempting to discredit claims about Omar while teeing up softballs.
Hayes did more talking on the subject of Ilhan Omar’s fraudulent net worth than she did!
Omar whined about her “basic life” and her 2016 Toyota Camry, claiming she struggles to afford her rent in Washington, DC, and Minneapolis, unlike the “majority of Congress,” who are millionaires. But she’s probably a millionaire too.
“It’s expensive, actually, to live in two places,” Hayes said, fawning over her tough financial situation.
Hayes: About the second part of the world that the president has conjured about you, which is which is your fabulous wealth. He has said that, like, I mean, again, he just, uh, you can never track what the president’s actually saying, because he says a lot of things, that you have all this money, that you drive a lot of cars, you have a bunch of houses. They cited a financial disclosure for, for, for Congress that initially said that your husband’s firm was worth $30 million. That was before an accountant put in the liabilities of that firm, which then brought 30 million down to like essentially net zero, $20,000, which did make me worry a little about your husband’s business, to be honest.
Omar: He’s not in them anymore.
Hayes: I was like, well, that seems like a big difference between $30,000,000 and $20,000. There was a congressional oversight body that voted that there was no wrongdoing. There was no evidence of wrongdoing. What is your financial situation?
Omar: I mean, it’s you know working, working class, I guess, like paycheck to paycheck still. You know, we’ve got four kids, and you know, we, we, we live, I think, like a basic life. I have a Toyota Camry that’s from 2016. It’s my only car. I rent my D.C. place and my Minneapolis place, and so I mean I don’t know if that sounds like — not majority of Congress, but there’s some of us that are that don’t come from wealth and don’t have wealth.
Hayes: Is that a big divide in Congress?
Omar: It is. Yeah, because you have like the millionaires, and then you have those of us, you know, when we first went to Congress, had to borrow money to find a place.
Hayes: It’s expensive, actually, to live in two places.
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