Squad member Ilhan Omar just got caught in a massive lie about her wealth. The Minnesota Democrat claimed she was not a millionaire and called such reports ridiculous and categorically false. Now her own financial disclosures show she and her husband are worth up to 30 million dollars.
This represents a shocking 3,500 percent increase in just one year. How does a public servant see her wealth explode like this while regular Americans struggle with inflation and high prices. The timing looks very suspicious and raises serious questions about how politicians get rich in Washington.
The money comes from her husband Tim Mynett’s two businesses. One is a winery in California that went from being worth around 30,000 dollars to as much as 5 million dollars. The other is a venture capital firm that jumped from under 1,000 dollars to 25 million dollars in value.
These are not normal business growth numbers. Smart Americans are asking how a venture capital firm grows by millions of percent in one year. This kind of explosive wealth creation often happens when politicians use their inside knowledge and connections.
Omar spent months denying she was wealthy while attacking capitalism and pushing socialist policies. She demanded higher taxes on the rich while secretly becoming mega-rich herself. This is the kind of hypocrisy that makes working families sick of Washington politicians.
The congresswoman has faced ethics questions before about her finances and personal relationships. Now she has to explain how her household became multimillionaires almost overnight. The American people deserve honest answers about where this money really came from.
This story shows why voters are fed up with career politicians who say one thing and do another. Omar preaches about income inequality while her own income inequality problem involves having too much money. She got caught red-handed lying about her wealth status.
Every hardworking American family should be outraged by this obvious double standard. While they pay higher taxes and struggle with rising costs, politicians like Omar are making secret millions and lying about it. This is exactly the kind of swamp behavior that needs to be drained from Washington.