Larry O'Connor
Role at the time: Townhall editor and radio host
Defended or excused
Response to this claim
Ilhan Omar is worth more than $44 million.
“And now after a couple of terms, she's worth thirty million.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)How Ilhan Omar Lost a Fortune Overnight · Larry O'Connor00:02:09-00:03:16
The transcript records O'Connor discussing Omar's amended disclosure and treating the earlier $30 million figure as her wealth.
Why we used this label
Relative to the case's claim, O'Connor treats the earlier $30 million range as Omar's wealth and rejects the amended filing as a satisfactory explanation, without adopting the exact $44 million amount.