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Rep. Ilhan Omar called Stephen Miller a ‘white nationalist.’ GOP critics accused her of anti-Semitism.

Washington • A familiar story line played out Monday night for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who condemned one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted advisers only to end up being accused of anti-Semitism.

"Stephen Miller is a white nationalist," she tweeted on Monday afternoon. "The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage." But because Miller, Trump's senior policy adviser, is Jewish, Omar's fervent detractors on the right saw her comments not as incendiary criticism of Miller's hard-line immigration policies but instead as part of a pattern of targeting Jews.