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Donald Trump says Joe Biden is running a ‘Gestapo’ administration, his latest reference to Nazi Germany
- Donald Trump sharpened his allegation that President Joe Biden has weaponised the US justice system
- In a speech at Mar-a-Lago, Trump compared Biden’s tactics to those of Adolf Hitler’s secret police force
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Donald Trump told Republican donors at his Florida resort this weekend that US President Joe Biden is running a “Gestapo administration”, the latest example of the former president employing the language of Nazi Germany in his campaign rhetoric.
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The remarks on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago were described by people who attended the event and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private session.
The “Gestapo” comment, one person said, came as Trump renewed his complaint that Biden’s White House is behind the multiple criminal prosecutions of the presumptive Republican nominee, including his continuing hush money and fraud trial in New York and additional cases stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Gestapo was the secret police force of the Third Reich that squelched political opposition generally and, specifically, targeted Jewish people for arrest during the Holocaust.
Republican Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota, appearing on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, essentially confirmed Trump’s statement, but tried to diminish its importance.
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