WASHINGTON — “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar outlandishly accused Stephen Miller, an observant Jew, of espousing “white supremacist rhetoric” akin to the way the “Nazis described Jewish people in Germany.”
“When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany,” Omar (D-Minn.) chided on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
Omar, a first-generation immigrant from Somalia, was reacting to an X post by Miller, widely seen as the architect of President Trump’s immigration agenda, in which he tore into mass migration.
“You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders,” Miller wrote in the X post.
“At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
The Post reached out to the White House for comment.
Lefty critics have long tried to pin Miller to white supremacism, despite his Jewish heritage.
The Minnesota Democrat has been incensed by the Trump administration’s targeting of her home state over an eye-watering $1 billion fraud scandal in which dozens of people fraudulently took taxpayer dollars for social services they never provided.
The fraud was centered around members of the Somali-American community in Minnesota, a fact that drew Trump’s wrath last week.
“You know, our country is at a tipping point,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting last week. “We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.”
“These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain and from where they came from, they got nothing,” he went on. “When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”
In the days that followed Trump’s incendiary attack on Somali-Americans, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stepped up its enforcement operations in Minnesota.
“It’s completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage,” Omar fired back against Trump’s broadsides.
“It’s also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president.”
Like Trump, Miller had been outspoken about the so-called Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, which has prompted scrutiny from the administration.
“We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history,” Miller told Fox News’ “Hannity” last week.
“And we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people.”
Omar has publicly said that the fraud likely grew out of control because the state had quickly created COVID-19 programs without properly thinking through the proper guardrails for them.
