According to a former Donald Trump White House communications official, the former president's rhetoric is reaching "unhinged" levels as he scrambles to return to the Oval Office.
Speaking with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Sarah Matthews — who quit following the Jan. 6 insurrection — claimed Trump's open embrace of extremist racist rhetoric should be alarming to anyone who has watched him recently.
"I'm sure you've been watching, because he's been so outspoken in the recent days and weeks, and you are someone, I know from the role, you probably read speeches, you edited speeches, you are very familiar with how he talks.," Psaki prompted. "As you are watching, do you think he's gotten worse, more unhinged?"
"I do think he's gotten more unhinged in his rhetoric," Matthews replied. "Obviously, Donald Trump's first four years in office were marked by lots of controversies. but I think that the type of rhetoric that he is using today, it's really concerning."
"It's almost Hitler-esque in a way, when he talks about immigration, poisoning the blood of our country," she continued. "He is trying to prey on people's worst instincts and get them angry and riled up; that is something he tends to do, but it's just the rhetoric that he is using, it's really concerning to me now."
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Later asked if she, as a conservative, would vote for the former president if he is on the ballot in November, she answered with a firm "no."
"I have said that if it is a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the general election, that even if I don't agree with the policies of President Biden, that I would put policy aside and I would cast my vote for him for democracy," she replied. "Because I look at Donald Trump and this is someone who has shown us he will not uphold the Constitution. And so, there is no question in my mind that I would be voting for Joe Biden."
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