Ilhan Omar’s husband discovered the truth about her torrid affair with her chief fundraiser when he went to her Washington D.C. apartment last spring and found the lovers lounging around in pajamas, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

Ahmed Hirsi had long suspected that Omar, 39, was cheating on him with married Tim Mynett but the proof came when he caught the hijab-wearing congresswoman in a state that no Muslim woman would expect to be with a man who is not her husband.

Two separate sources confirmed the account to DailyMail.com, saying that Hirsi was left ‘angry and humiliated’ by the encounter.

‘He suspected she was cheating but she kept telling him he was paranoid,’ one source said.

‘He told her he wanted to move down to D.C. to be with her but she insisted he should stay in Minneapolis with the children. Eventually he surprised her down there and his worst fears were confirmed.

‘It wasn’t that he actually caught them in bed but they were clearly in a romantic situation.’

DailyMail.com revealed last October that Omar and Mynett were not only dating, but living together 'on and off' at a secret DC apartment, while plotting romantic vacations to Jamaica and making plans for a long-term future together

Hirsi and Omar, 39, got engaged in 2002 and then had a faith-based marriage. They had two children before divorcing in 2008. She remarried Ahmed the following year (pictured). The two were granted a divorce in November 2019

Omar's campaign fundraiser strategist and lover Tim Mynett, 38, (left) left the courthouse in high spirits after officially divorcing Beth Jordan, 55, (right). He was grinning and clapping his hands in glee. He said he was happy with the proceedings but would not comment further

Hirsi remarried on December 12, just 37 days after divorcing the freshman representative from Minnesota — the mother of his three children.

Mynett, 38, also divorced his wife Beth in December. He was seen clapping his hands in glee as he left the Washington courthouse following the final hearing.

Omar’s campaign paid Mynett’s fundraising company more than half a million dollars last year, according to newly released Federal Election Commission figures. The amount paid each month increased dramatically after their affair was revealed at the end of July.

In December alone his E Street Company received $87,683, according to the figures reviewed by DailyMail.com.

The sources say the families of Hirsi and Omar hammered out a financial settlement that would give Hirsi tens of thousands of dollars over several years but only if he did not speak publicly about the marriage breakdown.

One source said the figure was as high as $250,000 over six years. Hirsi did not return DailyMail.com requests for comment.

Soon after the agreement was reached last year Hirsi, 40, traded in his old Nissan Maxima for a BMW 528i, which sells for $54,000 new.

Omar, 37, has refused to discuss her relationship with Mynett — or the reason for her divorce from Hirsi.

She was born in Somalia and after civil war broke out in 1991 she spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the United States when she was 12. Like thousands of other Somalis her family settled in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.

She won election to the Minnesota Statehouse in 2016 and followed that up with her Congressional victory two years later making her one of the first two Muslim women in the House.

But now after just one term in office she is facing a strong election challenge with three opponents in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party primaries.

Significantly one of her challengers, Leila Shukri Adan, 39, is Somali herself. She describes herself as a progressive Bernie Sanders supporter, ‘but to the right of Ilhan.’

The other challengers are lawyer and Christian minister Antone Melton-Meaux, 47, and John Mason, 57, who says he is Minnesota’s first openly gay black candidate.

Caucuses will be held on February 25 to elect delegates to a convention that will decide if the DFL should endorse any of the four candidates before the August primary. The winner of that primary is almost certain to win election to Washington as Minnesota’s 5th District is one of the 40 safest Democratic seats in the country.

Somalis in Minneapolis say Omar has lost significant support in their community since her 2018 victory. Much of that is due to her affair with Mynett.

Her decision to hold the first in a series of ‘Happy Hours with Ilhan’ at a Minneapolis distillery on Thursday evening added to the distrust. The event attracted around 100 followers, but there was a distinct lack of Somalis in the audience.

Omar arrived barely 20 minutes before the scheduled end of the event at Du Nord Craft Spirits as her plane from Washington was delayed.

‘I don’t know what she is thinking, holding a happy hour event,’ one local community leader told DailyMail.com. ‘It’s almost as if she is deliberately trying to turn her Somali supporters against her.

‘She is as a figurehead for us, the most famous Somali in America and she had embarrassed us. She is the face of the Somali community.’

The source said Somalis in Minneapolis were already upset after DailyMail.com published pictures of Mynett carrying beer into Omar’s apartment.

Omar's decision to hold the first in a series of ‘Happy Hours with Ilhan’ at a Minneapolis distillery on Thursday evening added to the distrust. The event attracted around 100 followers, but there was a distinct lack of Somalis in the audience. Above, Omar at the event

‘I don’t know what she is thinking, holding a happy hour event,’ one local community leader told DailyMail.com. ‘It’s almost as if she is deliberately trying to turn her Somali supporters against her.

Last September Tim Mynett went shopping at Safeway and get groceries and beer, and then headed to location we discovered was Ilhan Omar's apartment. with a six-pack of Stella Artois beer

Mynett heading into Omar's DC home on September 15 with a six-pack of Stella Artois beer.The source said Somalis in Minneapolis were already upset after DailyMail.com published pictures of Mynett carrying beer into Omar’s apartment

‘Now she is holding an event in a place where they actually make alcoholic drinks!’ the source exclaimed.

The Quran describes alcohol as ‘an abomination of Satan's handiwork.’ Omar was not seen to be drinking at the event, although most of her supporters were.

The congresswoman’s affair with Mynett has also leeched off support as has her backing of gay and lesbian rights, a topic that has virtually no support among generally conservative Somali-Americans.

‘First she is dancing with lesbians at a gay pride parade then she is cheating on her husband. These are things that are severely frowned upon,’ said one Minneapolis Somali leader.

‘People never wanted to believe that she was having an affair with her fundraiser. It wasn’t until pictures of the two of them together that many would accept the rumors.

‘Then even the Imams had to accept it was true.’

‘It came as a big shock that she would do something so outside our cultural norms,’ added the source.

‘Not only was she married, but so was he and there was anger that she had destroyed his family as well as her own. He had a son too.

Ilhan Omar and boyfriend Tim Mynett campaign in Iowa for Bernie Sanders. Also present is Bernie's wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders at event in Des Moines January 31

Ilhan Omar's ex husband Ahmed Hirsi has married pediatric nurse Ladan Ahmed, who had worked on Omar's election campaign, DailyMail.com has learned. The couple are now on honeymoon in Saudi Arabia and made a pilgrimage to Mecca. Pictured: The newlyweds standing outside of The Kaaba, which is the center of Islam's most important mosque the Great Mosque of Mecca

‘I don’t think people were too bothered that she was having an affair with a white man but they felt very sorry for the man’s wife — I felt very bad for her.’

DailyMail.com first revealed that Omar had split with Hirsi last summer. We then obtained video of her dining at a romantic out-of-the-way Los Angeles restaurant with a mystery man.

The man who took video of the 'date' said the couple were holding hands over dinner: 'He seemed very protective of her. It just felt to me like they were close,' he said.

Insiders soon identified the mystery man as Mynett, whose company has been on Omar's payroll since July 2018, providing fundraising and strategy services.

Latest figures filed with the Federal Election Commission show that Omar’s campaign paid the E Street Group $216,564 in the final three months of last year, a 47% increase on the $146,710 paid in the previous three months.

It brought the total paid to the company to more than $523,000 for the year.

Omar’s spokesperson said the congresswoman does not comment on her family or personal life ‘as she is focused on the work her constituents sent her to Washington to accomplish.’