Trump’s fascist talk is what’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’
Under the three-Reichs-and-you’re-out rule, Trump should be on the bench.
Yet he keeps swinging
— and this week provided a sobering measure of how numb we have become to his undeniably fascist rhetoric.
Almost exactly eight years ago, Trump attacked Gonzalo Curiel,
then the district judge in the Trump University fraud case,
saying that his “Mexican heritage” posed “an inherent conflict of interest.”
In the uproar that followed, even Republican leaders were appalled, and then-House Speaker Paul Ryan said ⭐️Trump’s statement was “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”⭐️
This week, Trump did almost the same thing when he left court on Tuesday after his defense rested in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
“The judge hates Donald Trump,” he said. “Just take a look. Take a look at him. Take a look at where he comes from.”
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan emigrated from Colombia as a child.
But this time there was little outcry from the inured populace, and if Republican leaders had any complaints about Trump’s textbook racism (or on his third Reich moment of this campaign) I must have missed them.
💥#Vilifying #migrants is a standard fascist trope.
So is the 💥constant claiming of victim status.
Trump falsely alleged in a fundraising email this week that his opponent conspired to kill him.
“Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger” during the FBI’s 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago for missing classified documents, Trump wrote.
He separately claimed that Biden’s Justice Department “AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.”
In reality, the FBI took extra precautions to avoid a confrontation by conducting the search when Trump was away
and alerted the Secret Service.
Agents were operating under the same standard rules of engagement they used when searching Biden’s home:
Lethal force can be used only if in “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury.”
Also this week, Trump, asked by Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV whether he💥favored restricting Americans’ access to birth control💥, responded:
“We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly.”
After the televised interview was broadcast, Trump said the notion that he would advocate restrictions on contraception was “a Democrat fabricated lie.”
🔥That maneuver — floating an outrageous policy and then pretending he had done no such thing
— is another tool that Trump routinely uses.
After Trump’s Truth Social account 🔸shared the video with the slightly-blurred “unified Reich” message 🔸during a lunch break in Trump’s trial in New York, his spokeswoman
claimed the video had been “created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the president was in court.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/24/trump-fascist-rhetoric-reich-policy/
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