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GREGG JARRETT: In a tortured defense of Ilhan Omar, The New York Times reaches for its darkest Trump analogy

The New York Times thinks a Democrat should get a pass on suspected crimes because it despises President Trump

By Gregg Jarrett Fox News

Published October 27, 2026 6:00am EDT

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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. Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is under investigation for potential immigration fraud and more. 

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The 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.

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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.

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Never mind those pesky........

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