WASHINGTON — President Trump confirmed Monday that the Department of Justice and Congress are investigating “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing net worth — after The Post revealed House Republicans would be taking a look at the Minnesota Democrat and her investor husband’s finances.
The president — who has previously called for Omar to be jailed or deported to her birth country of Somalia — revealed the federal and congressional inquiries after dispatching border czar Tom Homan to ease tensions in Minnesota related to Saturday’s fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by a federal immigration officer.
Trump, 79, noted the Land of 10,000 Lakes was already being probed for “welfare fraud” — but Omar, “who left Somalia with NOTHING” and is now worth tens of millions of dollars in her congressional finance disclosures, would also be put under investigation.
“Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and you’re panicking,” Omar, 43, fired back in a statement on X.
“Right on cue, you’re deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of ‘investigations’ have found nothing,” she added. “Get your goons out of Minnesota.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) previously told The Post that his panel was weighing a subpoena of Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, who jointly own their businesses.
The Republican chairman acknowledged he expects fierce pushback from both Omar and Mynett in the courts, as he and Oversight investigators seek to uncover what caused the “big spike” in the far-left pol’s assets.
Mynett’s investment firm, Rose Lake Capital, had only $42.44 in its bank account as of 2022, per court filings as part of a lawsuit filed in South Dakota against a related company.
Omar’s 2024 House financial disclosures, however, show Rose Lake Capital was worth up to $25 million.
The Democrat has not disclosed a personal ownership stake in the firm, though spouses’ assets must be listed in the congressional disclosures.
Other filings about Mynett’s additional business ventures — including a winery and pot farm that he has since abandoned — brought the couple’s total net worth to between $6 million and $30 million.
“Somebody’s going to find out,” Comer has said of the surging asset values. “It’s either going to be my committee or the Ethics Committee.”
A Rose Lake spokesman has said Mynett netted fewer than $20,000 in 2024 from his stake in the various companies, whereas the House disclosures list total assets of the firms.
Trump in his Monday post claimed Omar was “now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars.”
“Time will tell all,” he added.
Omar’s family fled Somalia for a refugee camp in Kenya during her home nation’s civil war, which has been ongoing since 1991.
The family was later granted asylum, first arriving in Arlington, Va., before moving to Minneapolis in 1997. The future congresswoman became a US citizen in 2000.
