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Ilhan Omar has built a reputation as one of the most controversial members of Congress. 

But while her political career has grabbed headlines, the story of her husband, Tim Mynett, deserves far more attention. 

Since marrying Omar in 2020, Mynett has seen his career and wealth skyrocket in ways that look eerily familiar to the questionable financial gains of other powerful Democrats, most notably Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

Mynett first entered the spotlight as a political consultant with E Street Group. 

Federal Election Commission filings later revealed that Omar’s campaign had funneled nearly $600,000 to Mynett or his firm between 2018 and 2020. 

This arrangement raised obvious ethical concerns, but Washington dismissed them as if nothing unusual had happened. 

Months later, Omar and Mynett married. By then, his firm had already cashed in on lucrative contracts thanks to her campaign.

Fast-forward to today, and Mynett has reinvented himself as the founder of Rose Lake Capital, a private investment firm that has raised more than $100 million over the years. 

According to his own biography, he has built relationships in some of the most “innovative political campaigns” of the past decade and claims to have brought “substantial change to the corridors of power.” 

In other words, Mynett has leveraged his political connections to accumulate influence and wealth. 

Conveniently, his most crucial tie happens to be his wife, one of the most polarizing lawmakers in America.

Meanwhile, Omar’s reported net worth has exploded. 

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From “Ridiculous” Denial to Millionaire Disclosure

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is the person I find most abhorrent in Congress, and that’s saying quite a bit when you consider the competition.

Once, she mocked the idea that she was a millionaire, calling it ridiculous and categorically false, daring critics to check her records, claiming they’d only find nothing more than “thousands.”

When critics combed her filings, they discovered her words of incredulity were as hollow as a November campaign yard sign in February.

Her 2024 disclosures show Omar and her husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, have assets valued between $6 million and $30 million.

That isn’t a modest bump: It rivals Hillary’s expertise in cattle futures.

To most Americans, the reward for going from thousands to millions comes from sacrifice, risk, and hard work. Omar, however, seems to have found a shortcut that she’s unwilling to share. If you have the temerity to ask her, you’ll get an eye roll, a pointed lecture, and the accusation of racism she stores in her back pocket.

It’s a formula that has been working for her for years: Blame everybody, accept none.

A Career of Excuses and Evasions

Omar has made a career out of slinging acid from her tongue, such as when she reduced the 9/11 attacks to “… some people did something.”

People were justifiably outraged, but she refused to show humility while accusing critics of Islamophobia, as if disgust at minimizing the murder of 3,000 Americans could be easily explained away as bias.

That was a line that would make a crooked Chicago alderman blush.

We’re watching the same routine play out with her finances; ask how her husband’s companies ballooned from $51,000 to potentially $25 million in about a year, and by asking, you become the villain. In the world she occupies, numbers are wrong, paperwork is full of lies, and anybody questioning her integrity is guilty of being a bigot.

We’re not watching leadership in action: We’re seeing a street-hustler dressed up, wearing a congressional pin.

The Clinton Precedent

This grit is something we’ve seen before. Remember Bill and Hillary Clinton whining when they left the White House in 2001 that they were “dead broke”? The Clintons were hoping we’d forget about their mansions, disregard the six-figure speech fees, and ignore their book deals. Their version of dead broke transformed nothing into mansions faster than you could mutter “Clinton Foundation.”

Omar has completely rewritten the script; instead of pretending she’s broke, she insists, loudly, that she isn’t rich. Funny enough, though, her filings say otherwise.

She’s counting on the noise surrounding Washington to distract, and like the Clintons, she’s relying on voters having bad memories. It’s the oldest game in politics: Plead poverty, rake in and hide the cash, and laugh all the way to the bank.

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