Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, fired back at the White House after it revived a debunked claim that she married her brother, posting a viral response that has topped 10.2 million views and pivoted from her denial to asking, “is your President a pedophile?”
Newsweek has reached out to Omar’s press team for comment via email on Thursday.
Why It Matters
President Donald Trump has claimed that Omar allegedly married her brother, a long-debunked claim that came to prominence years earlier that she has repeatedly denied. Omar who has represented Minnesota in the House since 2019, has frequently been the target of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attacks tied to her Somali heritage, faith and politics.
She is one of the original members of “the Squad,” a group of progressive

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