President Joe Biden on Tuesday told campaign donors that his likely 2024 opponent Donald Trump was using language similar to the Nazis and would use his presidency for “revenge and retribution” if elected to another term.
“There’s a lot of reasons to be against Donald Trump,” Biden told donors in San Francisco, according to a pool report, “but damn he shouldn’t be president.”
He singled out Trump’s recent use of the word “vermin” to describe his political rivals, likening it to Nazi terminology. The former president’s use of the word amounted to “a specific phrase because it’s just a specific meaning,” Biden told the donors, recalling “language you heard in Nazi Germany in the 30s.”
In a speech in New Hampshire over the weekend, Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, told a crowd: “We will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country,” and warned that “the real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day.”
Biden also pointed to Trump’s recent rhetoric that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.”
“Trump also recently talked about blood of America has been poisoned. The blood in America has been poisoned,” Biden said. “Again, echoes the same phrases used in Nazi Germany.”
The president also criticized Trump for his verbal attacks on Paul Pelosi. The husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the stand in federal court this week to speak publicly for the first time about the violent attack he suffered in their San Francisco home last year.
“On more than one occasion in recent weeks, he’s made a joke about the assaults on Nancy Pelosi’s husband,” Biden said. “There’s no place in America for political violence.”
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