Trump Calls Biden Administration the 'Gestapo'

[applegrove]

Trump Calls Biden Administration the ‘Gestapo’

May 4, 2024 at 10:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 345 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/04/trump-calls-biden-administration-the-gestapo/

"SNIP...........

“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.

Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”

“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P. Barr, who recently endorsed him after speaking critically of Mr. Trump since the administration ended.”

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Applegrove:

I guess calling himself Nelson Mandela didn't test well. I wonder why? Now he is a Jewish victim of the Holocaust.

[bluestarone]

1. What they are really good at is

Accusing the other side of doing what THEY are doing.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Is that TSF's "brilliant strategy" to get Jewish votes?

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Says the ogre who thinks

ankle monitors on pregnant women are A-OK

[senseandsensibility]

4. CNN had a chyron with this statement in quotes

No fact checking in the chyron which is all that some viewers see. Then brought on a magat R governor to "discuss." This is one of their favorite ways to spread his propaganda.

[SarahD]

5. He meant gazpacho.

Many top Biden officials secretly enjoy the cold soup.

[DoBW]

6. Every insult is a confession with TSF

the Gestapo angle fresh off the Time mag piece -- it's a pattern

[AltairIV]

7. Facts.

Does he realize that if that was actually the case he would be dead, or at least permanently missing?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Says the asshole who wants to become a dictator.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Biden White House pushes back in response to Trump 'Gestapo' talk

Donald Trump’s weird whining about the White House resembling the "Gestapo" isn’t just factually wrong and morally offensive, it’s also deeply ironic.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/biden-white-house-pushes-back-response-trump-gestapo-talk-rcna150840

When Donald Trump is confronted with news he does not like, he has an unfortunate habit of referencing Nazi Germany. In January 2017, for example, shortly before the Republican was inaugurated, he accused U.S. intelligence agencies of leaking information that made him look bad. “Are we living in Nazi Germany?” Trump asked at the time — as if leaks from intelligence agencies were a significant problem with Hitler’s regime.....

Over the weekend, the former president added to the list. NBC News reported:

Donald Trump compared President Joe Biden’s administration to the secret police force of Nazi Germany in remarks at a private, closed-door donor retreat on Saturday afternoon. ... “These people are running a Gestapo administration,” Trump said, according to audio of the luncheon provided to NBC News.

President Joe Biden’s team was not impressed.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said the Democratic incumbent is focused on bringing Americans together, “instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with Neo Nazis, and fanning debunked conspiracy theories that have cost brave police officer their lives.”.....

But as a political matter, if the Republican really wants to have a debate along these lines, he might not like where it ends up. The presumptive GOP nominee, after all, has spent recent months echoing Hitler while lashing out at immigrants, complaining that immigration is “poisoning the blood of our country” and describing migrants as “vermin.”

He’s also the candidate who continues to raise the prospect of building new detention camps, creating a temporary “dictatorship,” cracking down on the free press.