NYT’s Turnabout on Sweden Immigration, Crime: ‘Baffling’ Trump Comment Now Conventional Wisdom

A year after ridiculing President Trump for talking about it, the New York Times acknowledges that Sweden has a crime problem, and suggests very indirectly that it may have something to do with its loose immigration policy – just as the president insisted. “Fuzzy Slippers” at Legal Insurrection pointed out the paper’s original refusal to acknowledge the truth behind President Trump’s February 2017 remarks about Sweden’s refugee-related rise in crime. Then, in a surprise on Sunday, the paper actually wrote about violent crime in Sweden, even quoting a line by Trump from the speech it had mocked a year before. -- More...