Trump invokes Nazi rhetoric during Mar-a-Lago event

The former president then held a fundraiser at Mar a Lago over the weekend, he told Republican donors. The President Biden is running a quote, Gestapo administration, End Quote, while falsely claiming that the White House is behind all of his criminal prosecutions. This is of course not the first time that Trump has used Nazi rhetoric in the campaign, and the Biden team wasted little time in responding. They said quote. Trump is once again making despicable and insulting comments about the Holocaust while in the same breath attacking law enforcement, celebrating political violence, and threatening our democracy. All right, our panel’s here. Former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams, Michigan Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, and Matt Gorman, who is former senior advisor to Tim Scott’s president. Campaign, welcome all. Thank you for being here. Congresswoman, Let me start with you on these comments from Trump where he called it said that the Biden administration was using Gestapo tactics. We were just talking about how high emotions are running in other areas of our country. But this kind of language, it’s not the first time Donald Trump has used it. What are what are the ramifications of Trump talking like this? Well, this is how Donald Trump talks about many things, and I think it’s just contributing to a whole. A culture right now of the kind of way we’re treating each other. A culture of hate, a culture of pitiness against each other. And I’m very concerned about what is happening out in our communities and people being pitted against each other. And I do believe that former President Trump fans the flames of it. Elliott Williams, When you use a phrase like Gestapo tactics, let’s just be clear about, like, what we’re really talking about. Yeah, well, what’s really interesting is that across America. Go through these newspapers that are sitting here right now. anti-Semitism is on the rise in the country. There are documented acts of violence and if not, if not actual physical violence, harm against Jews. When you use terms like Gestapo tactics, even casually calling back to the Holocaust, you I think #1 I’ll probably bring back very painful memories for many people and their families, but also to using the kind of rhetoric that the Congresswoman talked about here that really has very little place. Even as metaphor in a civil society, it’s just it’s just there’s just no place for it.