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Jose Garcia

(2,552 posts)
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 07:38 PM Aug 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar at center of Washington political consultant's divorce

Source: MSNBC

The wife of a Washington political consultant filed for divorce on Tuesday and alleged that her husband told her he was having an affair with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to court documents obtained by NBC News.

Beth Mynett, who works as the medical director of the D.C. Department of Corrections, alleged in court documents that her husband, Tim Mynett, confessed his "devastating and shocking declaration of love" for Omar this past April, which led to the split. Tim Mynett's company, the political consulting firm E Street Group, has worked with Omar's campaign.

Omar's office, when asked for comment, referred NBC News to the E Street Group, which said in part, "E Street Group does not comment on the personal life of either our staff or clients."

Beth Mynett, 55, said in the divorce filing that she was "devastated by the betrayal and deceit that preceded his abrupt declaration," but she told her husband that she "loved him and was willing to fight for the marriage." However, she said he told her that "was not an option for him," according to court documents.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1047011

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Rep. Ilhan Omar at center of Washington political consultant's divorce (Original Post) Jose Garcia Aug 2019 OP
Hmm, maybe Joe and Mika will have something to say about this... CTyankee Aug 2019 #1
interesting JI7 Aug 2019 #2
"looks like he wishes to be with her" question everything Aug 2019 #23
Get back to me after 3 spouses, porn stars and child rapes, OK, Republicans? displacedtexan Aug 2019 #3
Something sounds hinckey to me rurallib Aug 2019 #4
there is nothing illegal being alleged here JI7 Aug 2019 #5
didn't say there was rurallib Aug 2019 #7
nobody is going to call on her to resign over an affair JI7 Aug 2019 #8
The Alabama GOP had just passed a resolution Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2019 #13
This stuff happens a lot in D.C. I worked for a lobbying organization (the ACLU) for several CTyankee Aug 2019 #6
Being away from your spouse is a big factor also Jose Garcia Aug 2019 #21
How does having an affair with a married man madaboutharry Aug 2019 #9
people practice their religion differently and almost always pick and choose JI7 Aug 2019 #10
"religious" folk can always find personal exceptions Skittles Aug 2019 #11
Henry the VIII comes to mind. nt Quackers Aug 2019 #12
he made up a religion so he could divorce his wife to marry his pregnant girlfriend Skittles Aug 2019 #16
Please! Spare me! Her religious beliefs! GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #18
More.. question everything Aug 2019 #14
And why is the news pushing this? FiveGoodMen Aug 2019 #15
Because it's news? GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #17
Nothing there there. RW uses what ever they can to attack Omar. People have lives don't they. YOHABLO Aug 2019 #19
Older guy leaves his 50-something wife for younger woman. SunSeeker Aug 2019 #20
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2019 #22
I just don't care htuttle Aug 2019 #24

JI7

(89,182 posts)
2. interesting
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 07:57 PM
Aug 2019

what's weird is it would be difficult for republicans to go after her on this becsuse it's so against what they have been trying to make her out to be.

a black Muslim woman with a white man.

im not sure whether they are actually involved with each other but ilhan is very pretty and in pics of them together he looks like he wishes to be with her.



question everything

(47,271 posts)
23. "looks like he wishes to be with her"
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 01:33 PM
Aug 2019

Except that he is married, got tired of a woman 20 years older, prefers someone close to his age..

displacedtexan

(15,695 posts)
3. Get back to me after 3 spouses, porn stars and child rapes, OK, Republicans?
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 08:16 PM
Aug 2019

"How dare you?" Should be the response to any wingnut who dares mention this.

rurallib

(62,346 posts)
4. Something sounds hinckey to me
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 08:22 PM
Aug 2019

Maybe I am still a bit gun-shy after the Franken deal.
Will wait for more details.

rurallib

(62,346 posts)
7. didn't say there was
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 08:41 PM
Aug 2019

Just happens to be convenient that Trump's target #1 is suddenly accused in a domestic break up.
Suspect there may soon be calls for her resignation.
Will wait for more details.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
13. The Alabama GOP had just passed a resolution
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 10:07 PM
Aug 2019

to call on the party to force her out of office.

Is the term representative democracy to far a stretch for this racists ?

Apparently child molesters are ok with them, though.

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
6. This stuff happens a lot in D.C. I worked for a lobbying organization (the ACLU) for several
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 08:36 PM
Aug 2019

years and was often on the Hill in congressmen's offices. I got to know staff members and I learned a lot from them. I think it goes on there due to the headiness of being near powerful people. Plus the grandeur of the architecture on the Hill lends an aura of glamor. But I had moved there from New York City and found D.C. to be quite provincial and a bit boring.

JI7

(89,182 posts)
10. people practice their religion differently and almost always pick and choose
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 09:02 PM
Aug 2019

she already had left her first husband for another guy and then ended up leaving him for the first one again.

and ever since this guy in the op came into the picture that first husband seems to no longer be around.

Skittles

(152,967 posts)
16. he made up a religion so he could divorce his wife to marry his pregnant girlfriend
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 10:28 PM
Aug 2019

whom he later had beheaded

yup

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
18. Please! Spare me! Her religious beliefs!
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 11:30 PM
Aug 2019

Same as when any other ‘Religious’ person, Democratic or republican. that makes a mockery of their religion.

53 years on earth have taught me that religion is useful until ‘believers’ want something else. Then is all out the window.

question everything

(47,271 posts)
14. More..
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 10:09 PM
Aug 2019

(snip)

A spokesman for Omar declined a Star Tribune request for comment. In a later interview on WCCO television, Omar denied that she is separated or dating outside her marriage. However she cut off further inquiry about the Mynett divorce. “I have no interest in really allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue,” she said. 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.

(snip)

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 Mynett’s 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.

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. Omar has vehemently denied she was married to her brother, calling the allegation “false and ridiculous.”

(snip)

Omar has said previously that she has been involved with Hirsi, who she called the “love of my life,” since 2002, though they were not legally married until 2018, shortly before she was elected to Congress.

http://www.startribune.com/dc-doctor-alleges-her-husband-left-her-for-rep-ilhan-omar/558480212/

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
17. Because it's news?
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 11:23 PM
Aug 2019

Were it a republican world the response be different?

Hope it’s not true. But at the end of the day she is not my representative. Her constituents elected her.

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