Rep. Ilhan Omar has had some pretty tall tales and inexplicable scandals, including the whole thing about marrying her brother, but this has to be the worst excuse for anything ever.
I don’t see how even someone trying to give Omar every possible benefit of the doubt can swallow this.
An Omar disclosure filed last year showed she and her husband held assets of between $6 million and $30 million, a massive rise in wealth from her previous annual filing. That jump triggered questions among Republicans eager to scrutinize a critic of the president.
An amended filing viewed by The Wall Street Journal shows the couple’s assets to be just $18,004 to $95,000. The forms don’t require exact values, only broad ranges.
Those businesses had previously been listed as worth between $6 million and $30 million. In the amended filing, they are shown as having no value once liabilities are factored in
Aides said that Omar looked at the form before it was filed in 2025, but that the error didn’t jump off the page for her because she isn’t involved with her husband’s businesses and she trusted the accuracy of the accountant who provided her husband’s figures.
I’m sorry, Omar’s excuse is that…
1. The difference between $30 million and $95,000 was an accounting error
2. Omar is so unfamiliar with her husband’s businesses that she didn’t realize they’re not millionaires.
Why not just go with “The Dog Ate My Disclosure”?
A Washington lawyer representing Omar responded in a letter to the OCC that the inaccurate filing was unintentional.
“As the busiest of people, it is very common for members and their spouses to rely on learned professionals like accountants to make calculations and determinations that appear on public filings,” the letter said.
Congresspersons may be so very busy holding hearings into things and constantly tweeting while also trading stocks that they don’t pay very close attention to their disclosures… except when the disclosure claims that their net worth is in the tens of millions… and they’re just too busy to notice.
This is a ridiculous excuse and only a media determined to cover up for Omar would take it seriously.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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