Ilhan Omar dodges questions about probe into gay ‘brother’ ex-husband — claims she has no idea what it’s about

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Rep. Ilhan Omar faced questions on whether her ex-husband was gay.

Rep. Ilhan Omar dodged questions about the federal investigations targeting her Tuesday, claiming she has no idea what the probes are about — before refusing to address questions about whether her alleged brother and former husband is gay.

The Minnesota Democrat was confronted by a Fox News Digital reporter on Capitol Hill, where she offered few details about the investigations or the personal belongings federal agents seized during an October raid on her Washington, DC, home.

“We’re just wondering if the government is giving you your devices back, after you tried?” the reporter asked Omar.

Pressed on whether the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice were conducting separate investigations, Omar appeared unsure.

In a separate exchange, the reporter asked Omar whether federal authorities had told her what she was being investigated for.

The reporter also pressed Omar on The Post’s previous reporting about her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who described himself as a “gay man” and a “gay person” in an academic paper published earlier this year.

Elmi, a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, described himself as “a gay man of the East African diaspora” in an August 2026 paper titled “Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya.”

The congresswoman’s marriage to Elmi has faced scrutiny for years, with critics alleging that the two were secretly siblings and that their marriage was a sham designed to help him obtain immigration benefits. Omar has denied the allegations.

A 2016 investigation by federal authorities examined the allegations, but the case reportedly stalled after prosecutors determined that any potential criminal violations had fallen outside the five-year statute of limitations.

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