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Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump, photographed at a campaign rally in Ohio last weekend.
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If he loses the presidential election, “bloodbath” awaits. The participants in the deadly attack on the Capitol were “unbelievable patriots.” Migrants “poison American blood”.
Republican Donald Trump’s rhetoric is becoming increasingly fanatical and criticized as endorsing violence.
The voice sounds like something out of a Hollywood trailer. As it roars over the sun-drenched campaign rally in Ohio, former President Donald Trump salutes.
“Please stand up for the horribly unfairly treated January 6 hostage,” announces the announcer, while a recording of what is said to be the detainees singing the US national anthem plays.
– Incredible patriots, Trump then says of those convicted of the storming and promises to help them “on day one” if he becomes president.
Pence: Unfortunate
The words about the events of January 6, 2021, when a crowd incited by Trump stormed the Congress, are brought forward as another example of the ex-president’s extreme rhetoric. It is applauded by large swathes of his loyal supporters, but viewed with distaste among Democrats and many independent voters. Even some Republicans distance themselves.
– Totally unacceptable, says Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence to the television channel CBS.
The hostage comments were dropped last weekend, when Trump also warned of “bloodbath” if he does not win the election. Whether he was referring to carnage in the auto industry, which he spoke of at the time, or in general was unclear. The words prompted President Joe Biden’s campaign spokesman James Singer to react.
“He (Trump) wants another January 6th, but the American people will give him an election loss,” Singer said in a statement.
Prevailing Trumpnoya?
In recent weeks, Trump has also claimed that Jews who vote for the Democrats “hate Israel” and their religion. He has repeated claims that migrants are “poisoning American blood”. And political opponents are likened to “vermin”.
The statements have been compared to those of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. In his manifesto “Mein Kampf” Hitler wrote about poisoned blood.
– Trump’s description of people from other countries and ethnicities as inhumane is the kind of language we see in countries before ethnic violence or genocide breaks out, warns Brendan Nyhan, professor of political science at Dartmouth College, on the PBS television channel.
Trump claims he has not read “Mein Kampf” and rejects the criticism. His campaign claims that statements were taken out of context and that “Trumpnoye syndrome” prevails.
The strategy seems to be working. The ex-president has higher opinion numbers than Biden and has gathered the delegates required to be named the Republican presidential candidate ahead of the autumn elections.
FACT Storming the United States Congress
On January 6, 2021, the members of the United States Congress gathered in the Capitol to count the electoral votes of the presidential election and formally appoint Democrat Joe Biden as the winner and next president.
At the same time, tens of thousands of supporters of Donald Trump met in the capital Washington DC for a political mass meeting on the theme “Save the USA”. At the meeting, Trump repeated his false claims of systematic election fraud and claimed that he was the real winner. He urged his supporters to go to the Congress.
“If you don’t get the hell out of you, you won’t have a country anymore,” said the then president.
Parts of the crowd did as he said. The protests turned violent when hundreds of people stormed the Capitol and clashed with police. Some entered one of the chambers and parts of the building were vandalized.
Nine deaths can be linked to the storming, according to AP. Over 700 prosecutions have been brought and more than 450 prison sentences handed down. One of the four criminal charges brought against Donald Trump relates to the attack on the Capitol, but the trial has not yet started.
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