A spokesman for Donald Trump offered an alarming defense of the former president referring to his political enemies as "vermin."
The ex-president slurred his opponents and critics Saturday in a Veterans Day post on Truth Social and in a campaign rally speech in New Hampshire, calling them a dangerous threat to the nation and using language once employed by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to dehumanize their own enemies, reported the Washington Post.
“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Trump said, dredging up lies about his 2020 election loss that fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection. “They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”
Numerous historians and other experts were disturbed by Trump language, saying they echoed words used by fascist dictators in the past to stir up violence against their enemies, but a spokesman for the ex-president offered a menacing denial.
“Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House," Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, told the newspaper.
