Rep. Ilhan Omar gave a murky answer when asked if her ex-husband was her brother, days after Homeland Security agents searched her Washington home.

In her first on-camera interview since the raid, the Minnesota Democrat faced the decade-old allegation head-on and still left the central question hanging.

Pressed on whether there was any “weird kernel of truth” to claims she married her brother, Omar told MS NOW host Chris Hayes, “Not to my knowledge,” then branded the whole storyline “insane” while federal investigators continue probing her immigration paperwork and finances.

The New York Post reported that her remarks came Wednesday, after Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at the D.C. residence she shares with husband Tim Mynett.

Agents took 17 items and left the house tidy

Omar described an early-morning scene that at first sounded like a fire or an evacuation next door. Agents then moved room by room through the home.

She said they seized 17 items, including cellphones, her daughter’s old phone, her husband’s notebooks, a Somali phrase book, and a camera. She also pushed back on reports that DNA material was taken, saying she would have noticed anything of that kind.

Omar called the search “intrusive but polite” and noted the agents folded clothing and put the house back in order. That careful tone has not slowed the larger case.

Just the News reported that HSI carried out a judicially authorized warrant secured by the Justice Department as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation into immigration paperwork filled out when she was a child.

The same probe has already drawn family members deeper into the picture, including fresh scrutiny after feds questioned Omar’s sister in the wake of the D.C. search.

“Not to my knowledge” does not close the file

The marriage allegation has followed Omar for years. Critics have long claimed she wed Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in a failed effort tied to immigration benefits and that he was actually her brother.

Omar traced the story to an old Somali blog and later claims by people who said she once introduced him as her brother. She dismissed those accounts as invented.

“Not to my knowledge.”

That was her direct reply when Hayes asked about any kernel of truth. She did not offer documents, a timeline, or a categorical family history to put the claim to rest.

Vice President JD Vance has publicly pointed to allegations of a sham marriage for residency. Border officials have likewise confirmed active work on the immigration side of the file, and National Review noted the search sits inside a criminal fraud investigation of paperwork tied to her late father.

Omar maintains she became a U.S. citizen at 17 through her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, who naturalized in 2000 after emigrating five years earlier. Investigators are examining whether false statements about her birth date or other material facts appear on those records.

A source familiar with the matter has said that if citizenship was obtained by concealment or willful misrepresentation, the administration would pursue denaturalization and deportation. No charges have been announced.

Working-class pitch meets a separate money probe

Omar used the interview to cast herself as far from wealthy. She said she drives a 2016 Toyota Camry as the family’s only car and rents both her D.C. and Minneapolis places.

“I have a Toyota Camry that’s from 2016. It’s our only car. I rent my DC place and my Minneapolis place, and so I mean, I don’t know, that sounds like not the majority of Congress, but there’s some of us that don’t come from wealth and don’t have wealth.”

That message collides with financial documents that once suggested a combined net worth near $30 million, figures Omar later called a mistake and said were revised downward. A separate inquiry into the couple’s finances is being handled by the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that more than a dozen federal grand jury subpoenas have gone out, including to Omar relatives. The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office is leading the immigration side of the work.

Pressure on the household has stayed high as Omar’s husband reappeared after the Homeland Security search while questions about the couple’s wealth continued.

Death threats force a move, fundraising follows

Omar said the raid made her D.C. address public and that death threats now make the house unsafe for her children to visit. She told interviewers she cannot keep living there and must find another place.

The Washington Examiner reported her Wednesday statement that she will be forced to leave the apartment because of those threats tied to the federal investigation.

“I can’t continue to live there, so we have to figure out where to move to.”

She also posted a minute-long fundraising video filmed from the back of a moving vehicle. In it she urged donations to “fight Trump and his administration for trying to intimidate me and so many other people right before the midterm elections,” and accused the president of “running scared.”

President Trump, speaking Tuesday, took a harder line.

“She could go to jail.”

He added that “they keep talking about deportation.” Omar answered that she is “confident in my truth” and “didn’t do anything wrong,” and that she will “be just fine” when the process ends.

Some Democrats have framed the search as political weaponization, and Obama moved to defend Omar after the HSI raid even as investigators kept gathering records.

Paperwork, passports, and a widening case

Federal agents have already expanded the evidence haul beyond the initial 17 items from the house. Reporting on the same investigation has described seizure of travel documents and devices as prosecutors map possible charging options.

That track includes work that federal agents seized Omar’s passport and devices while the Justice Department examined a potential deportation path.

Omar entered the United States as a Somali-born refugee and built a high-profile career in Congress as a member of the progressive “Squad.” The current file returns to the most basic questions in immigration law: what name, what date of birth, what family relationships, and what facts were written on the forms that produced citizenship.

Those are document questions. They are answered with records, not with campaign videos or claims of intimidation. Grand jury subpoenas to relatives, a judicially authorized search, and parallel finance and immigration tracks show prosecutors are treating the matter as a criminal inquiry, not a talking-point dispute.

Voters can watch the filings. “Not to my knowledge” is not a records production. If the paperwork is clean, the fastest way to end the story is to show it. If it is not, no amount of midterm fundraising language will revise what the forms say.