08-28-2019, 04:45 AM
http://www.startribune.com/dc-doctor-all...558480212/
“WASHINGTON – A Washington, D.C., physician alleged in divorce filings Tuesday that her husband, a national political consultant, left her after becoming romantically involved with U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a client of his fundraising business.
In an interview, Omar denied that she is separated or dating outside her marriage.
“I have no interest in really allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue,” she told WCCO-TV, cutting off further inquiry.
Omar avoided questions at a Tuesday night forum in Minneapolis and a spokesman declined a Star Tribune request for comment.
The freshman Democratic congresswoman has been legally married since last year to her longtime romantic companion, Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her three children in Minneapolis.
It’s the latest in a string of controversies facing the former one-term state legislator who catapulted to national political fame after her groundbreaking 2018 election.
Omar’s office told the Star Tribune in June that she has faced many false accusations about her personal life — including the claim that she once married her brother — and that continuing to answer them was “not only demeaning to Ilhan, but to her entire family.”
But the divorce, first disclosed by the New York Post, is likely to open Omar to renewed scrutiny about her personal and marital life, already the subject of intense interest in the tabloid press from New York to London.
The couple have been separated since the alleged relationship came to light around April 7, according to a family court petition filed in D.C. Superior Court. Dr. Beth Mynett said her husband, Omar consultant Tim Mynett, confessed to her that he was “romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.”
London’s Daily Mail recently posted photographs of Omar and Tim Mynett dining in a Los Angeles restaurant in March a day after she made much-criticized remarks at a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet characterizing the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.” Critics, including Trump, accused her of minimizing the attacks; Omar and her allies argued that she was making the point that all Muslims had been branded by the acts of a few.
The episode preceded the Mynetts’ separation by two weeks. Beth Mynett said in her divorce filing that although she was “devastated by the betrayal and deceit” that preceded her husband’s declaration of love for Omar, she remained willing to fight for their marriage.
“(Tim Mynett), however, told her that was not an option for him,” her lawyers wrote.
Neither Tim Mynett, 38, nor Beth Mynett, 55, or her lawyers responded to requests for comment.
The allegations of an extramarital affair follow the disclosure earlier this year that Omar had improperly filed tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with Hirsi while at the time legally married to but separated from another man. The episode renewed claims long promoted by conservative media bloggers that her previous marriage — allegedly to her brother — was part of an immigration scheme.
She has said previously that she has been involved with Hirsi, whom she called the “love of my life,” since 2002, though they were not legally married until 2018, shortly before she was elected to Congress.
Omar has vehemently denied she was married to her brother, calling the allegation “false and ridiculous.”
“WASHINGTON – A Washington, D.C., physician alleged in divorce filings Tuesday that her husband, a national political consultant, left her after becoming romantically involved with U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a client of his fundraising business.
In an interview, Omar denied that she is separated or dating outside her marriage.
“I have no interest in really allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue,” she told WCCO-TV, cutting off further inquiry.
Omar avoided questions at a Tuesday night forum in Minneapolis and a spokesman declined a Star Tribune request for comment.
The freshman Democratic congresswoman has been legally married since last year to her longtime romantic companion, Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her three children in Minneapolis.
It’s the latest in a string of controversies facing the former one-term state legislator who catapulted to national political fame after her groundbreaking 2018 election.
Omar’s office told the Star Tribune in June that she has faced many false accusations about her personal life — including the claim that she once married her brother — and that continuing to answer them was “not only demeaning to Ilhan, but to her entire family.”
But the divorce, first disclosed by the New York Post, is likely to open Omar to renewed scrutiny about her personal and marital life, already the subject of intense interest in the tabloid press from New York to London.
The couple have been separated since the alleged relationship came to light around April 7, according to a family court petition filed in D.C. Superior Court. Dr. Beth Mynett said her husband, Omar consultant Tim Mynett, confessed to her that he was “romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.”
London’s Daily Mail recently posted photographs of Omar and Tim Mynett dining in a Los Angeles restaurant in March a day after she made much-criticized remarks at a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet characterizing the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.” Critics, including Trump, accused her of minimizing the attacks; Omar and her allies argued that she was making the point that all Muslims had been branded by the acts of a few.
The episode preceded the Mynetts’ separation by two weeks. Beth Mynett said in her divorce filing that although she was “devastated by the betrayal and deceit” that preceded her husband’s declaration of love for Omar, she remained willing to fight for their marriage.
“(Tim Mynett), however, told her that was not an option for him,” her lawyers wrote.
Neither Tim Mynett, 38, nor Beth Mynett, 55, or her lawyers responded to requests for comment.
The allegations of an extramarital affair follow the disclosure earlier this year that Omar had improperly filed tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with Hirsi while at the time legally married to but separated from another man. The episode renewed claims long promoted by conservative media bloggers that her previous marriage — allegedly to her brother — was part of an immigration scheme.
She has said previously that she has been involved with Hirsi, whom she called the “love of my life,” since 2002, though they were not legally married until 2018, shortly before she was elected to Congress.
Omar has vehemently denied she was married to her brother, calling the allegation “false and ridiculous.”
