Did Ilhan Omar marry her brother to get US citizenship? Here's the truth behind Trump's bold claim

Amid the political war around Charlie Kirk's assassination, US President Donald Trump accused Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of marrying her brother to secure US citizenship. The baseless claim of the American president came after Omar grilled Republicans for attacking the left over Kirk's assassination. While talking to Mehdi Hasan on his platform Zeteo, Omar called the Republicans "full of s***.”

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Reacting to this, the POTUS posted on his social media platform Truth Social, saying, “Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence."

"Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!," he added.

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Nancy Mace of South Carolina to censure the Minnesota lawmaker. Mace had said that Omar should be deported to Somalia, where she was born.

Did she marry her brother?

The allegation that Ilhan married her brother has been there for years now, but multiple fact-checks and investigations have proved the claim is false. She denied it in 2016, saying it was "absolutely false and ridiculous”. She also provided her marital history.

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