President Biden’s campaign team on Monday accused Donald Trump of “emulating” Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini by comparing his political opponents to “vermin.”
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During a campaign rally on Saturday, the former Republican leader and 2024 presidential candidate vowed to “eradicate the communists, Marxists, fascists and thugs of the radical left who live like vermin in our country.”
Comments made on Veterans Day that Joe Biden’s camp says are similar to those of World War II dictators.
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“Donald Trump has emulated the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for Joe Biden’s campaign, said on Monday.
A spokesman for Donald Trump described the allegations as “ridiculous” in a statement to AFP. “Those who make such insinuations (…) will be devastated when President Trump returns to the White House,” he assured.
The former American president has long since made his politically incorrect, deliberately provocative speech his trademark.
But his rhetoric has escalated recently, with the Republican suggesting a few weeks ago that a powerful American general was guilty of “treason” and that in other times he would have been executed.
He then said the migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border was “poisoning the blood of our country.”