Tim Mynett, the Democrat political consultant whose affair with Representative Ilhan Omar apparently wrecked his marriage and invited complaints to the Federal Election Commission, has claimed in court papers that he and his wife weren’t the happy couple she claims.
Mynett’s counterclaim in his divorce from Beth Mynett, indeed, offers a much different story than the one she told. About the only thing the two agree on is that they separated in April.
Mynett, not surprisingly, doesn’t mention his affair with Omar and denies adultery, while Beth Mynett says the dusky Jezebel stole her husband.
Mynett’s Case
The Mynetts married on June 21, 2012 six years after their son was born. Tim Mynett was 25; Beth, 42.
That’s when “Ms. Mynett made it clear that she wanted to be married and if they were not married, Mr. Mynett would have to move out and parent their son from afar,” Mynett’s counterclaim says. “The thought of living apart from William, and his step-daughter, to whom Mr. Mynett had developed a strong bond, was more than he could imagine. The parties married that year.”
In other words, Beth Mynett, 17 years his senior, pressed him into marriage.
“The next six years of the parties’ relationship were a rollercoaster of highs and lows,” Mynett avers, and “on multiple occasions, due to the unhappy and unfulfilling nature of their relationship, the parties discussed separation and divorce.”
The problems? As with many marriages, “differences … in parenting styles was the source of many arguments,” and “Ms. Mynett’s often unilateral focus on making expensive and seemingly unending renovations and cosmetic changes to the marital home, and the impact that had on the parties’ finances, was a frequent cause of tension between the parties.”
Such was the fighting, Mynett claims, that Beth “occasionally” fled the home and stayed in a hotel.
And so “by 2018, Mr. Mynett was disenchanted with the parties’ marriage and relationship and was struggling to reconcile his deep personal unhappiness with his desire to keep his marriage and family intact.”
As well, Tim Mynett “repeatedly voiced to Ms. Mynett that he was unhappy and was believed she was likewise unhappy. He stated repeatedly that they needed to find a way to improve their relationship. Unfortunately, those conversations never resulted in meaningful improvements in their marriage.”
And so in April, Tim Mynett told his wife the marriage was over because “he had been unhappy for the better part of their relationship.”
Mynett also told her that he did not have “any physical or sexual relationship with any other woman during their marriage.”
The counterclaim also accuses Beth Mynett of waging a “negative campaign … to ruin his career” and relationship with his son and step-daughter.
As well, “Ms. Mynett has taken full advantage of the high-profile clients for whom Mr. Mynett and his business work in an apparent attempt to secure a settlement wholly unfavorable to Mr. Mynett.”
Campaign Finance Trouble
That’s not quite the truth, Beth Mynett says in her court papers. She says Omar stole her husband, and that his travel for her campaign was the pair’s cover story to hide their illicit affair.
The Daily Mail, which first reported Tim Mynett’s counterclaim, had previously confirmed the affair in October with a long story and photos that showed the lovebirds were nesting at Omar’s pad in Washington, D.C.
“Beth Mynett’s camp immediately hit back at his depiction of the marriage,” the Mail reported. “‘Her team is preparing a response based on the real facts,’ a close friend” told the website.
“She is not going to let Tim paint a false picture of their marriage which was happy and fulfilling before Ilhan Omar came on the scene.”
The friend said Mynett’s denials of an affair with Omar have been “completely discredited at this point.”
“Tim adored Beth — and rightly so because she is an awesome, accomplished woman.”
The affair also upended Omar’s marriage, which officially ended on November 5, but in any event wrecked marriages and wounded children aren’t Mynett and Omar’s only troubles.
He and the congresswoman, who wears colorful headgear on the floor of the House of Representative to demonstrate her devotion to Islam, must explain why her congressional campaign has funnelled so much money to Mynett’s E Street Group.
Those payments are the subject of a complaint to the Federal Election Commission: The Washington Free Beacon found that 30 percent of the Omar’s campaign spending in the third quarter of 2019 went to E Street.
FEC reports showed that the campaign paid E Street $149,812.64 during the 91 days between July 1 and September 30.
Image of Ilhan Omar: Screenshot of Facebook
