Here’s the March 11, 2010, report in The Detroit News pic.twitter.com/rFe5lH0iLt
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 3, 2019
A nearly decade-old article in The Detroit News, suggests Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s own father hasn’t always had a high opinion of her.
The story, dated March 11, 2010, quotes the Democratic Socialist’s father, who accused her of lying “big-time to get elected” by deliberately falsifying her address.
The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra reports:
Tlaib’s father, Harbi Elabed, made the accusations against Tlaib, who at the time was a freshman state-level representative from the 12th District in Detroit’s Southwest side. The newspaper article was scrubbed from the internet when The Detroit News migrated to a new website but was available in a subscription-based digital archive. The Detroit News reported:
He said his daughter misrepresented her residency when she signed an election affidavit in 2008 with the Wayne County Clerk claiming she was a citizen of Detroit.
According to that affidavit, Tlaib claimed she lived at 9123 Rathbone in Detroit. That house is owned in part by her father, Harbi Elabed, and he now says she did not live there and he was only recently made aware that she had claimed so.
“She lied,” Elabed said. “She lied big-time to get elected. I never teach her that way. I teach her the right way. It’s my house. She didn’t live there. She lived in Dearborn in her house with her husband and boy.”