Here we go again.Trump is behaving just like Hitler.On Friday, the New York Times published an editorial with the provocative headline "Trump Is Turning to an Old Tool of Authoritarian Repression."The editorial was a defense of Minn.
Democrat Rep.Ilhan Omar, who is under investigation for potential immigration fraud and more. GREGG JARRETT: ILHAN OMAR COULD FACE INDICTMENT, DENATURALIZATION AND DEPORTATIONThe Hitler defense of Rep.
Omar was conjured by the Editorial Board of The New York Times.Insofar as name-calling goes, it’s lame.It is also an unmistakable deflection.
It’s the kind of stuff kids do in the schoolyard when caught cheating in kickball.But some kids never grow up.
Perhaps they just move on to a fancier playground called The New York Times.The Trump-Hitler comparison is a tired cudgel that the Times loves to trot out periodically to remind its readers that the current occupant of the Oval Office is evil.But in the newspaper’s Friday editorial, it deployed the insult in a remarkably disconnected way.The editors argue that since tyrants in history —Hitler included— used "revocation of a political opponent’s citizenship" as a "tool of authoritarian repression" that must be what President Donald Trump is doing to Omar.REP ILHAN OMAR'S IMMIGRATION HISTORY FACES NEW SCRUTINY AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS SUBPOENA RELATIVESNever mind those pesky things called the law and its enforcement thereof.
In fact, the Times disregards the code of federal statutes entirely, tossing them out as utterly irrelevant or meaningless.Journalists at the New York Times have done extensive reporting on the Ilhan Omar case.But the Editorial Board seems more interested in blaming Trump than examining the facts.In their conceit, the editors openly confess that they are little acquainted with the known facts or evidence.
"We do not pretend to know whether the allegations have merit," they write while adding, "They are not the main issue."FEDERAL AGENTS RAID ILHAN OMA...