An allegedly fraud-fraught congresswoman has reportedly lawyered up in a big way with a pair of attorneys linked to some of the Democrats’ biggest shams of the past decade.
In the wake of a friendly media appearance with MS NOW, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) made a public appearance on Friday in order to cast an early ballot for the midterm election after days of avoiding the limelight.
While ridicule and suspicion have continued for the Somalia-born lawmaker accused in part of immigration and marriage fraud, the New York Post detailed that her defense includes attorneys who previously represented former President Joe Biden and lead lawfare peddlers of the Democratic Party.
Identifying both Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz of the Washington, D.C. firm Hecker Fink, the Post said of the former that she “became Biden’s personal attorney in 2025, succeeding longtime confidant Bob Bauer.”
In addition to representing the president’s use of the autopen, she also acted as counsel for the sham Jan. 6 committee and represented former FBI official Lisa Page, best known for her Russiagate correspondence amid an affair with fellow former FBI official Peter Strzok, which became the subject of the Phelim McAleer stageplay “FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers” starring Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson.
“The other half of Omar’s legal squad is Joshua Matz, also a partner at Hecker Fink, who represented House Democrats during both Trump impeachments and served on the legal team of the House Jan. 6 committee,” detailed the Post, which further indicated that Matz represented various universities in conflict with President Donald Trump’s executive orders against diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Given that Omar claimed she lives “paycheck to paycheck” in her MS NOW interview — a claim in line with her amended tax filing following an initially reported net worth around $30 million. It remains unclear who might be footing the bill for her boutique firm attorneys. Omar’s campaign filings reveals no payments to either the firm or the lawyers directly as of the Oct. 15 filing deadline, according to the Post.
To that end, she did release a video acknowledging the “very expensive and challenging time,” thanking supporters for chipping in with whatever donations they could, and asking that such contributions continue.
Following reports that the search warrant for Omar’s Washington, D.C. residence referred to her as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, the congresswoman was asked by Fox News Digital which name was correct, to which she replied, “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, you know it. It’s Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”
Speaking at a rally in Florida, President Donald Trump addressed the matter of the foreign-born politician’s identity and said, “I was saddened to hear that Ilhan Omar is not her name … The one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, that’s the one that she used for everything, Ilhan Omar. But rather, it’s an entirely different name … Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.”
“It’s close,” joked Trump, who made note that the name matches that of her brother, whom she allegedly married in an act of immigration fraud, before remarking, “So, when asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, ‘Not to my knowledge.’”
.@POTUS absolutely roasts Ilhan Nur Said Elmi
https://t.co/S0lClF309N
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 23, 2026
“But because Ilhan used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume that she must immediately resign from Congress,” the president went on to say before turning to Florida Republicans Rep. Byron Donalds and Senator Ashley Moody as he asked them to “please inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives James Michael Johnson … that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded the seat of the former Ilhan Omar from the lovely country of Somalia.”
