CNN host Jim Acosta pressed Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) about Donald Trump’s Hitler-filled speech in New Hampshire over the weekend.
Burchett admitted that he did not agree at all with Trump’s language, but said he would vote for Trump next November.
“I have one rule in my office: that you never compare anything to the Holocaust or Hitler except the Holocaust or Hitler because of the horrific nature of that time period,” Burchett said.
President Joe Biden’s campaign condemned the language used by Trump, comparing him to Hitler because the ladder often compared people to “vermin” to dehumanize them and legitimize his attacks on them.
Trump claimed that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States. Purity of blood was one of Hitler’s concerns. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were intended to “protect German blood and German honour.” They prohibited marriage and sex between Germans and Jews. Trump has not indicated whether he would be willing to ban marriage to immigrants to help stop “blood poisoning,” as he claims.
“Donald Trump has led by example by parroting Adolf Hitler, praising Kim Jong Un, and quoting Vladimir Putin as he ran for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” said Ammar Moussa, spokesman for the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign. a permit.
Acosta Burchett referred to Hitler’s statement in which he spoke of the poisoning of blood by those he did not want in the country.
However, this was not limited to the Jews. Hitler believed that physical and mental disabilities were genetically transmitted, and therefore such people should not be allowed to have children within his “master race.” Ultimately, they were the first to be slaughtered because they were declared “unworthy of life.” They were killed as part of the Nazi “T-4” or “euthanasia” program.
Acosta explained to Burchett that Hitler wrote about “the great civilizations” of the past collapsing because “the creative race became extinct” due to “blood pollution.” He wondered whether Trump should stop using language like that.
“I think any kind of comparison to ‘Mein Kampf’ is actually quite horrific,” Burchett said. He then clarified again that he wasn’t there. “I didn’t hear what he said. Honestly, this is the first time I’ve heard about it because I don’t usually follow the national media.” As I should.”
He added: “I don’t know that this helps us, but the truth is that it touched a sensitive nerve in which the issue of illegal immigration” has caused ongoing problems. He continued to focus on attacking Democrats for not solving the immigration problem. The Republican Party’s solution is to build a wall.
But Acosta didn’t let him off the hook.
“Would you want to be on the campaign trail with the former president if he was saying something like immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country or even illegal immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country?” Acosta asked.
“This is absolutely extreme to me. I would not have chosen those words,” Burchett said.
So, Acosta asked if he would vote for Trump, and Burchett said he “absolutely” would.
“Even if he was saying things like poisoning the blood of the country,” Acosta asked, Burchett would still be willing to support him. The Republican rejected the language. Although he did not call it “locker room talk,” he said it was a “bravado campaign.” Then he blamed Trump being from New York.
“As you well know, we don’t usually talk like that, and he’s from New York, and that’s the way people are — it’s Trump as Trump,” Burchett said. “It’s a campaign of swagger. You get on stage. You feed the audience, and then you let it tear you apart. That’s exactly what he does, and frankly, that’s why so many people like him. That’s why his business sees the numbers go up —”
Acosta chimed in to say it’s not just campaign talk, asking, “Isn’t this something different?”
“I don’t think he will. There’s no way he’ll be a dictator for a day, Jim. You know that, I know that. There’s only so many temporary solutions out there. You can just do it.” t…” Burchett said before he was cut off.
Acosta said Trump did try to overthrow the election, something Burchett supported on January 6, 2021. The congressman went on to say that the people arrested on January 6 are not being treated well enough.
Watch the discussion in the video below or at the link here.
In a recent verbal attack, journalist Jim Acosta accused Republicans of using language reminiscent of Hitler and singled out President Donald Trump, suggesting that his upbringing in New York City was a contributing factor. Acosta’s comments have ignited a firestorm of backlash, with many questioning the validity of his claims and the appropriateness of comparing political rhetoric to the atrocities of Nazi Germany. The contentious remarks have once again brought to the forefront the heated political climate in the United States, where accusations and incendiary language have become commonplace.