A Newsmax segment is lighting up the political world after host Rob Finnerty laid out a simple but explosive question about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s finances — one that Democrats and the corporate press seem determined to avoid: How does someone go from a net worth of $65,000 to over $30 million in just three years?
Finnerty walked viewers through Omar’s financial disclosures dating back to 2018, when she first ran for Congress. According to those records, her net assets were “right around $65,000” — modest, unremarkable, and unchanged for the next several years. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, later divorced, then remarried Ahmed Hirsi. Even after all those personal transitions, Finnerty noted, “her net worth was still right around $65,000.”
But then came a shift — not in her career, not in a business venture, not in any disclosed windfall — but in her marriage. By 2021, Omar married political consultant Tim Mynett, whose firm previously worked with her campaign. And suddenly, something changed.
“So by 2024 Ilhan is married to a new person, a white guy named Tim. There’s Tim, Tim Minette, and Tim is not a rich man, but now he is. Tim’s rich now,” Finnerty said. “Because somehow, over the course of the last three years, Ilhan Omar’s net worth has skyrocketed to over $30 million and counting.”
Finnerty drove home the math. “Meaning she went from having right around $65,000 to $30 million in three years. Think about that. Powerball drawing is tonight. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? Ilhan Omar did not win the lottery. Bernie Madoff was cheating, and he still wasn’t doing that well. That is a 46,000% increase in less than three years.”
It wasn’t just the money that Finnerty highlighted — it was the unanswered questions surrounding Omar’s past. He revisited long-standing allegations about her immigration history, saying, “We don’t know for sure, because Ilhan Omar likely married her brother at one point to get him into this country illegally when she came here from Somalia, which, by the way, is a federal crime, and she’s serving in Congress, and nobody talks about this.”
Finnerty pressed the central question again and again: How does a member of Congress — someone earning $174,000 a year — generate generational wealth in record time during the Biden-Harris administration?
“Now. How do you suppose that happened? Do you really expect us all to believe that she just played the stock market like she’s got a great investor and they just got kind of lucky over the course of the Biden presidency?”
His conclusion was blunt: “So once again, where did Ilhan Omar get all that money? And why is she trying to make Americans feel bad for Somalian criminals.”
Finnerty argued these revelations demand serious scrutiny — not silence. And the longer no one in Washington answers, the louder the question becomes.
See Finnerty’s whole segment about where Ilhan Omar’s sudden rise in wealth came from…