Toronto Sun columnists are well known for having a loose definition of the truth. But a new tweet by right-wing columnist Tarek Fatah may be the most disturbing example yet.

Fatah shared an article from the Daily Mail that implies congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who has faced days of racist attacks from President Trump, married her brother to procure him a green card.

'I am legally married to one

and culturally to another':



How @Ilhan Omar desperately tried to shut down accusations of bigamy amid claims she was briefly married to her BROTHER to 'commit immigration fraud' while she was still with her current husband. https://t.co/ndnXGDdu5u — Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) July 19, 2019

The conspiracy theory has received new attention after President Trump hinted that someone in his government was investigating the allegations.

The accusations, unproven and any basis, that Omar married her brother to procure him a green card, were started by an anonymous online user on Somali Spot, a website for the Somalia diaspora. The post has since been deleted, but not before being taken up by numerous right-wing pundits, including Rush Limbaugh and Rebel Media’s Jack Posobiec. A full breakdown of how the conspiracy theory began can be found at the Daily Beast.

This isn’t the first time Toronto Sun columnists have been caught spreading fake news and conspiracy theories. Sue-Ann Levy argued in 2017 that Obama was a Muslim, a right-wing conspiracy theory promoted by Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders. Levy also published a since disproved story about refugees sacrificing goats at the Toronto Radisson hotel.