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.@IlhanMN’s Husband No Longer Works for Minneapolis Councilwoman. Sources Say Omar Asked for Him to Be Fired (Via @realDSteinberg) pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg… #SelfEvident via @pjmedia_com

On the evening of the 27th, Minneapolis CBS affiliate WCCO aired an exclusive interview with Omar, and asked her if she had separated from her husband Ahmed Hirsi -- a senior policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilwoman Alondra Cano -- and was now dating someone else.

Rep. Omar answered: “No, I am not. As I said yesterday, I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it.”

Remarkably, media generally accepted both Omar’s denial and her framing of the story as being limited to her “personal life.”

Further, no outlet investigated one conspicuous matter of public interest raised by the story: “Senior Policy Aide” to a Minneapolis City Council member is a taxpayer-funded position.

Certainly, Ahmed Hirsi’s work for Councilwoman Cano’s might be affected by corruption issues involving his wife.

During the summer, sources* within the Minneapolis Somali community informed me that Rep. Ilhan Omar has been using financial leverage to prevent Ahmed Hirsi from filing for divorce.

Ahmed Hirsi’s employment with Councilwoman Cano was quietly terminated months ago: June 14.

My sources stated that Ahmed Hirsi was terminated following a request by Rep. Omar. They added that Omar’s motivation for the request was to force Hirsi to become reliant upon her assets and income.

For the majority of 2019, Ahmed Hirsi has reportedly borne the responsibility of raising the three children he has with Omar. (One source used the term “abandoned” to describe Ilhan’s recent share of the parenting.)

Since June 14, Hirsi does not appear to have a reliable source of income.

Meanwhile, Rep. Omar currently draws a $174,000 Congressional salary, and reportedly received a $250,000 book advance in January.

My sources have long described the Omar/Hirsi separation as an “open secret” among much of the community. However, they also stated that the potential contents of a Hirsi divorce filing would likely magnify Omar’s legal exposure.

Further, they stated that Omar is concerned that a significant percentage of local Somali voters would no longer support her should they be convinced Omar violated her Islamic marriage vows.

Hirsi has indeed maintained his silence, and not spoken up on Omar’s behalf. My sources assert that Omar’s financial pressure is a primary cause.

Yet again, local and national media has failed to identify or address pivotal information about @Ilhan Omar.

WCCO’s Esme Murphy asked Omar the follow-up question which countless writers have used to parody a starstruck media: "You seem completely unfazed and unbowed by negative publicity about your personal life that you don’t want to comment on. How do you do it?”

Ilhan Omar, of course, didn’t “do it.” Esme Murphy did.

For 3 years, Omar and a disturbingly compliant media, have repeated this pattern. First, Omar will bumble her cover-up of perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in U.S. history

Then, the media will deliberately whiff on what could have been the scoop of their careers.

Minnesota voters deserve to know about Omar’s actions that relate to her duties as an elected official.

But more importantly -- now that Omar has become a history-changing international disgrace -- we all need to understand why we’re still being kept in the dark.

(Via @realDSteinberg)