2023-11-13 18:56:23
Former US President Donald Trump drew sharp criticism for calling political opponents “vermin.” US President Joe Biden’s campaign team today accused the Republican of “emulating the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.”
Many US soldiers lost their lives fighting these two “dictators” in World War II, said Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa. The soldiers fought to “defeat the un-American ideas that Trump now advocates.”
“Horribly recognizable”
A White House spokesman also condemned Trump’s “vermin” remark. Such a term would have been “horrifyingly recognizable” to soldiers donning the U.S. uniform in the 1940s.
Trump gave a speech at a campaign event in the state of New Hampshire on Saturday. He said: “We will eradicate the communists, Marxists, fascists and radical left-wing gangsters who live like vermin in the borders of our country, who lie, steal and cheat in elections and who will do everything in their power – legal or illegal – to destroy America and destroy the American dream.”
The English word “vermin” can be translated as “vermin”, “pest”, “parasite” or “pack”. After Trump’s comments, experts recalled that such terms were used by the National Socialists in Germany to dehumanize Jews.
Trump’s campaign team responded to criticism that those making such historical comparisons would have their “sad, miserable existence squashed if President Trump returns to the White House.”
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