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.
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CTyankee
(63,771 posts)n/t
JI7
(89,182 posts)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)Except that he is married, got tired of a woman 20 years older, prefers someone close to his age..
displacedtexan
(15,695 posts)"How dare you?" Should be the response to any wingnut who dares mention this.
rurallib
(62,346 posts)Maybe I am still a bit gun-shy after the Franken deal.
Will wait for more details.
JI7
(89,182 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)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.
JI7
(89,182 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)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)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.
Jose Garcia
(2,552 posts)madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)square with her religious beliefs?
I dont get people.
JI7
(89,182 posts)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)that allow them to do ANYTHING
Quackers
(2,256 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)whom he later had beheaded
yup
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)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)(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)
Londons 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 husbands 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/
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Were it a republican world the response be different?
Hope its not true. But at the end of the day she is not my representative. Her constituents elected her.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Happens every day, sadly.
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)Not a bit.