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Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized Donald Trump’s campaign Tuesday for drawing comparisons between the weak President’s contemporary federal indictments and the actions of the Nazi authorities in 1930s Germany.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized weak President Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday for … [+] comparing his indictment with the voice of Nazi Germany in 1930s.
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In a press free up following Trump’s indictment in the January 6 probe, the weak president’s campaign attacked the “Biden Crime Family” and the “weaponized Division of Justice.”
The assertion mentioned the “persecutions” of Trump and his supporters used to be “harking abet to Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the weak Soviet Union, and different authoritarian, dictatorial regimes.”
In response, Greenblatt tweeted that comparing the indictments with Nazi Germany in the 1930s “is factually improper, totally substandard and flat out offensive.”
The ADL chief added that “such comparisons abolish now now not dangle any voice in politics and are coarse.”
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Trump used to be charged on four federal prison counts on Tuesday as allotment of a federal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the leadup to the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The costs in opposition to the weak president encompass conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy in opposition to rights of voters, obstructing an respectable proceeding and conspiring to obstruct an respectable proceeding.
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In a press free up issued on his Reality Social platform, Trump mentioned: “THIS UNPRECEDENTED INDICTMENT OF A FORMER (HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL!) PRESIDENT, & THE LEADING CANDIDATE, BY FAR, IN BOTH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE 2024 GENERAL ELECTION, HAS AWOKEN THE WORLD TO THE CORRUPTION, SCANDAL, & FAILURE THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS.”
Breaking news Extra Reading
Trump Indicted: Ex-President Charged With 4 Felony Counts In Jan. 6 Probe—As Jack Smith Decries Election ‘Lies’ (Forbes)
Trump Reacts To Indictment: Says Jan. 6 Expenses ‘Reminiscent’ Of Nazi Persecution (Forbes)