Omar Faces Ethics Outcry Over Payments To Husband After Decrying Those Who Profit Under Our System Of Oppression JONATHAN TURLEY
Rep. Iihan Omar has been much in the news for her extreme positions on defunding police departments and yesterday calling for the dismantling of not just the American economy but the political system. In declaring her support for sweeping legislation yesterday, Omar railed against the American economic and political systems as a system of oppression and insisted that we cannot allow people to prioritize profit without considering who is profiting. That question however is now being raised in growing ethical concerns over Omar giving her husband s company a massive amount of her campaign funds. This has been an issue that I have written about for over two decades as a legal but corrupt practice. The two stories show once again that the only defining element in Washington greater than irony is hypocrisy in both of our political parties.