llhan Omars shady family history gives Trump plenty of reasons to probe her past

Much of Ilhan Omar’s family story is a black box, but we are presumably about to learn much more about it. Federal authorities raided her Washington, DC, residence Monday in what’s reportedly a probe related to her immigration paperwork. The congresswoman has alleged an effort to weaponize federal law enforcement and silence her.The Trump administration, which has repeatedly over-reached in pursuit of its political opponents, doesn’t necessarily deserve the benefit of the doubt, although questions have swirled around Omar’s background for years.She has always responded with angry, uninformative dismissals, even when the Minneapolis Star-Tribune — not exactly a right-wing news source — has made inquiries. The allegation that’s gotten the most attention is that Ilhan Omar married her brother.The underlying suggestion is that Ilhan’s family split up in the 1990s as it sought refuge from war-torn Somalia.Allegedly, the future congresswoman, her father and one of her sisters used the false name Omar to come to the United States as part of another Somali family that won asylum here, while her siblings — under different names — got asylum in the UK. Then, Omar supposedly did her brother the favor of getting him into the States, too, via a sham marriage. If nothing else, she’s had a very odd marital life; she’s almost the Zsa Zsa Gabor of Somali-Americans.Omar was in a Islamic marriage with one man (named Ahmed Hirsi), then married the man believed to be her brother (Ahmed Said Elmi), then divorced Elmi and officially married Hirsi — before divorcing Hirsi and marrying a political consultant who is now her husband. In her memoir, she says nothing of substance about Elmi: She doesn’t use his name and claims she spent very little time with him.She also doesn’t name any of her siblings.She gives the impression of wanting to provide as a little information about her family background as possible, and sticking to the more important work of mal...