Donald Trump actively wants his fans to enact violence on his behalf, a writer revealed in a new book.
ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's new book Tired of Winning will be released at midnight, and among the bombshells is a conversation he reveals about Trump's supporters — and the effect the former president wants his violent rhetoric to have on them.
"I remember a conversation I had with him when we had the mass shootings in El Paso and Pennsylvania and Dayton in short order," Karl said on MSNBC Monday. "And there were real concerns there would be more. And he's using this language. This language out of the Third Reich — 'enemy of the people.'"
"I said, aren't you concerned the people will take your words to heart? Aren't you concerned they will act on them?"
"And without missing a beat, he said I hope they take my words to heart. I believe the press is the enemy of the people. So I don't know. Maybe it's an inability to have any kind of empathy or understanding of the consequences of your words, but that is consistent. That's not new."
Over the weekend, Trump referred to liberals as "vermin," a demeaning tactic many experts said was used by Hitler to dehumanize the Jews and other groups he targeted so that he could justify attacks on them.
When asked to confirm that is what Trump meant to do, his spokesperson told the press of critics claiming that: "Their existence will be crushed."
See the clip of Karl speaking to MSNBC below or at the link here.
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