John Solomon says evidence supports Omar fraud allegations
John SolomonFounder and editor in chief of Just the News, who says in the interview that he chairs the White House Government Transparency Task Force
In a Newsmax interview, Just the News founder John Solomon claimed evidence supported the allegations against Ilhan Omar. Read his remarks alongside the ICE letter he cited.
“There’s a pretty good, strong body of evidence.” … “got turned down on the grounds that there’s an ongoing investigation. So, that’s the first time we knew that it was under investigation.” … “I suspect we’ll be able to make it public soon.”
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Where this statement fits
Should Trump administration officials publicly accuse Rep. Ilhan Omar of immigration fraud?
Since at least 2016 there have been unproven claims that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2009 husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. Senior Trump administration officials have repeated the claim publicly. This record begins with Vice President JD Vance’s March 27, 2026 statement that “we actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud,” and includes President Donald Trump’s May 1 statement, “I believe she married her brother.” On September 10, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a podcast interview, “we know that she married her brother to try to bring him in the United States,” and that an investigation was ongoing. On September 13, border czar Tom Homan declined to give specifics of an “ongoing criminal investigation” but said “no one’s above the law.” Omar has denied the claim: on September 16 she told a reporter “Absolutely not” and that she is not under investigation, and on September 18 Fox News Digital reported her saying DHS had not contacted her. Fox reported that there has been no public evidence available to confirm an open investigation into her.
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Newsmax’s video of an interview with John Solomon, posted at 8:56 p.m. EDT on September 14, 2026 (00:56 UTC on September 15); the video does not show when the interview aired. Solomon says in it that he chairs the White House Government Transparency Task Force; the video’s headline calls him a “Trump adviser.”
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ICE’s May 12, 2026 letter to John Solomon withholding in full, under FOIA Exemption 7(A), records about “allegations of immigration fraud involving a member of Congress marrying a relative from 2016-2021.” The letter does not name Omar; Just the News identifies the request as concerning her. The exemption is not a statement about the merits of any allegation.
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Just the News reports that ICE withheld records responsive to the outlet’s January 2026 Freedom of Information Act request about any ICE investigation into the allegation that Omar married a relative. John Solomon, who is quoted in this case, leads Just the News.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Before the quotation
The interviewer told Solomon, “this has been pushed off as a far-right conspiracy theory, but turns out it’s not.” Just the News, which Solomon leads, reported on August 12 that ICE had withheld records responsive to its January request under an exemption for pending enforcement proceedings.
After the quotation
Solomon said in the same interview that “if Mark Wayne Mullin is correct about the evidence” Omar could have gained citizenship “through false pretenses.” ICE’s May 12 letter to Solomon does not name Omar and says disclosure “could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
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Solomon asserts that there is a strong body of evidence, says the records were withheld because of an ongoing investigation, says he expects the evidence to be made public, and describes a path to Omar’s deportation. That supports the accusation and the announced investigation. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”, because his description of denaturalization depends on whether Mullin is correct about the evidence; it loses because that condition applies to a later step, while he asserts now that a strong body of evidence exists.
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