Gertz calls the $30 million reading of Omar's disclosure false
Senior fellow at Media Matters for America
“Watters was promoting a right-wing falsehood that Omar's financial disclosure showed her net worth climbed to $30 million”
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Media Matters preserves a clip from The Five in which Watters says $30 million entered Omar's bank account.
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Gertz first quoted Watters saying that $30 million had entered Omar's bank account.
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He said the disclosure reflected business-value ranges and a change in household finances after Omar's marriage, not $30 million deposited into her account.
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Responding to: Ilhan Omar is worth more than $44 million.
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Relative to the case's $44 million claim, Gertz explicitly rejects the underlying $30 million reading and explains why it did not establish Omar's personal net worth.
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