{"id":1028648,"date":"2023-12-19T23:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1028648"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:10:46","slug":"icymi-forbes-republicans-downplay-trumps-hitler-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-forbes-republicans-downplay-trumps-hitler-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Forbes: Republicans Downplay Trump\u2019s Hitler Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cWhile the Biden campaign and historians have repeatedly highlighted the similarities between Trump\u2019s language and Nazi propaganda, many of his GOP allies have defended him or declined to comment on the remarks.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2023\/12\/19\/republicans-downplay-trumps-hitler-rhetoric\/?sh=666897c022c3\"><strong>Forbes<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Republicans Downplay Trump\u2019s Hitler Rhetoric<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Sara Dorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) insisted former President Donald Trump wasn\u2019t referring to \u201cimmigrants\u201d when he said twice Saturday that \u201cillegal immigration is poisoning the blood\u201d of our country, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called it a \u201ctactical mistake,\u201d and multiple Senate Republicans declined to comment\u2014despite widespread fury that<strong> the language echoes that of Adolf Hitler.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump made the comments at a rally in New Hampshire then repeated them in writing on Truth Social later in the day\u2014marking <strong>at least the fourth time in recent weeks that Trump\u2019s rhetoric has drawn comparisons to Hitler, who mentions \u201cblood poisoning\u201d several times in \u201cMein Kampf\u201d<\/strong>, where he claimed \u201cgreat cultures of the past perished only because the originally created race died out from blood poisoning. \u201c<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>While the Biden campaign and historians have repeatedly highlighted the similarities between Trump\u2019s language and Nazi propaganda, many of his GOP allies have defended him or declined to comment on the remarks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Malliotakis, the only Republican in Congress who represents a New York City district, told CNN Monday Trump \u201cdidn\u2019t say the words immigrants\u201d adding, \u201cI think he was talking about the Democratic policies,\u201d<strong> while she defended Trump <\/strong>against people who \u201care trying to make it seem like President Trump is anti-immigrant . . . the reality is he was married to immigrants, he\u2019s hired immigrants,\u201d she said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>DeSantis also downplayed the remarks<\/strong> in Iowa Monday and said Trump made a \u201ctactical mistake\u201d by giving \u201cthe opposition an ability to try to make [Trump\u2019s immigration policy proposals] about something else,\u201d and also told Fox News, \u201cI don\u2019t know what this means with the blood stuff, I know people are trying to draw historical allusions, I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s what he meant.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At least two GOP senators, John Kennedy (La.) and Todd Young (Ind.), <strong>declined to comment when asked about the remarks by Politico, which noted no GOP senators called on Trump to walk back the comments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who has sharply criticized college students who have espoused pro-Palestinian language widely viewed as antisemitic and denounced university leaders who have defended them,<strong> has not publicly commented on Trump\u2019s remarks and instead met with him at Mar-a-Lago on Monday<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Historians and critics of Trump\u2019s \u201cblood\u201d comments have noted they closely mirror phrases used several times in Hitler\u2019s \u201cMein Kampf.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Trump also quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin and praised dictators, including Hungarian President Viktor Orban and North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un, in his speech Saturday.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cWhile the Biden campaign and historians have repeatedly highlighted the similarities between Trump\u2019s language and Nazi propaganda, many of his GOP allies have defended him or declined to comment on the remarks.\u201d&nbsp; Forbes: Republicans Downplay Trump\u2019s Hitler Rhetoric By Sara Dorn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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