Examining Trump’s Claims About Representative Ilhan Omar
Summarize
Here’s what he has claimed, and what we know.
July 18, 2019
President Trump at a rally at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., on Wednesday.Tom Brenner for The New York Times
President Trump’s attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, have been the centerpiece of his political strategy in recent days, a tactic that led his supporters at a raucous rally in North Carolina on Wednesday to erupt into chants of “send her back.”
Ms. Omar is one of four Democratic members of Congress — all women of color — who have come in for intense criticism from Mr. Trump. His particular focus on Ms. Omar, who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States as a refugee, followed months of comments from him casting her as “ungrateful” and “unpatriotic.”
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump drew attention to rumors that Ms. Omar had married her brother. The president then dove into a litany of accusations about the congresswoman. Some, like his repeated claims that Ms. Omar had praised Al Qaeda, were flatly false. Others, like his description of her citing a death toll in an infamous battle as “slander” against American troops, were his subjective characterizations of her remarks.
Here’s a fact check.
What Mr. Trump Said
“Well, there is a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it.”
— in remarks to reporters on Wednesday
Rumors that Ms. Omar had married her brother have been circulating since 2016, when she ran for state representative in Minnesota. No proof has emerged substantiating these claims.
In 2016, Ms. Omar released a statement denying the rumors as “absolutely false and ridiculous” and providing a timeline of her marital history.
According to that timeline, she applied for a marriage license with Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, but never finalized the application. In 2008, they ended their relationship “in our faith tradition.”
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Linda Qiu is a fact-check reporter, based in Washington. She came to The Times in 2017 from the fact-checking service PolitiFact.
A version of this article appears in print on July 19, 2019, Section A, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: Repeating False Claims, And Then Cooking Up A Few on His Own
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Examining Trump’s Claims About Representative Ilhan Omar Summarize Here’s what he has claimed, and what we know.
July 18, 2019
President Trump at a rally at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., on Wednesday.Tom Brenner for The New York Times President Trump’s attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, have been the centerpiece of his political strategy in recent days, a tactic that led his supporters at a raucous rally in North Carolina on Wednesday to erupt into chants of “send her back.”
Ms. Omar is one of four Democratic members of Congress — all women of color — who have come in for intense criticism from Mr. Trump. His particular focus on Ms. Omar, who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States as a refugee, followed months of comments from him casting her as “ungrateful” and “unpatriotic.”
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump drew attention to rumors that Ms. Omar had married her brother. The president then dove into a litany of accusations about the congresswoman. Some, like his repeated claims that Ms. Omar had praised Al Qaeda, were flatly false. Others, like his description of her citing a death toll in an infamous battle as “slander” against American troops, were his subjective characterizations of her remarks.
Here’s a fact check.
What Mr. Trump Said
“Well, there is a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it.” — in remarks to reporters on Wednesday
Rumors that Ms. Omar had married her brother have been circulating since 2016, when she ran for state representative in Minnesota. No proof has emerged substantiating these claims.
In 2016, Ms. Omar released a statement denying the rumors as “absolutely false and ridiculous” and providing a timeline of her marital history.
According to that timeline, she applied for a marriage license with Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, but never finalized the application. In 2008, they ended their relationship “in our faith tradition.”
Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like.
Linda Qiu is a fact-check reporter, based in Washington. She came to The Times in 2017 from the fact-checking service PolitiFact.
A version of this article appears in print on July 19, 2019, Section A, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: Repeating False Claims, And Then Cooking Up A Few on His Own