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White House Bashes Trump For Echoing ‘Fascists’ Following ‘Gestapo’ Remarks

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The White House ripped Donald Trump for echoing “fascists” after the former president compared President Joe Biden’s administration to the Gestapo, the secret police force of Nazi Germany.

“Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with Neo Nazis, and fanning debunked conspiracy theories that have cost brave police officer their lives, President Biden is bringing the American people together around our shared democratic values and the rule of law — an approach that has delivered the biggest violent crime reduction in 50 years,” said deputy press secretary Andrew Bates in a statement.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, in remarks to a private Republican National Committee donor event at his Mar-a-Lago estate, hurled attacks at prosecutors in his legal cases before likening the Biden White House to a “Gestapo administration” on Saturday.

“And it’s the only thing they have,” said Trump, according to audio obtained by The New York Times.

“And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me.”

Trump has previously faced backlash for echoing the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini when he pledged to “root out … vermin” political foes and Biden’s reelection campaign slammed him for parroting Hitler with his “poisoning the blood of our country” comments last year, as well.

His recent event reportedly led to donations of $40,000 or greater from attendees. A Trump campaign official recently said that the former president and the Republican National Committee raised over $76 million last month.

CNN’s Jake Tapper questioned North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who is among Republicans eyed as a potential 2024 running mate for Trump, over whether he’s “comfortable” with Trump’s comparison on Sunday.

“Relative to the reference you’re discussing, I mean this was a short comment deep into the thing that wasn’t really central to what he was talking about,” said Burgum, who attended the Trump event, before claiming the hush money trial is “politically motivated.”

He continued, “So I understand that he feels like he’s being unfairly treated and I think that’s reasonable that someone who’s being kept off the campaign trail as the presumptive nominee has got some frustration about that.”

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‘Gestapo Administration’: Trump Likens Biden White House To Nazis In Wild Attack

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Former US President Donald Trump went after prosecutors in his legal cases before comparing President Joe Biden’s administration to Gestapo, the secret police force of Nazi Germany, at a private Republican National Committee donor event, according to audio obtained by multiple outlets on Saturday.

“These people are running a Gestapo administration,” said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has claimed he’d be a dictator on “day one” and whose rhetoric has been compared to that of Adolf Hitler.

“And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me.”

Trump launched multiple insults and attacks toward prosecutors including special counsel Jack Smith — who is prosecuting the former president’s two federal cases. The former president called Smith a “fucking asshole” in his speech at his Mar-a-Lago estate, The Washington Post reported.

He reportedly labelled Smith as an “evil thug,” “deranged” and someone who is “unattractive both inside and out,” as well.

He also referred to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — who is prosecuting Trump’s Georgia election interference case — as “Mrs Wade,” a nod to her relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade, as well as a “real beauty.”

Trump, who faces 88 charges across four criminal cases, claimed that he went easier on Biden prior to getting indicted and since then he declared that “now the gloves have to come off.”

“Once I got indicted, I said holy shit, I just got indicted. Me, I got indicted,” said Trump who likened getting indicted to “Alphonse,” the first name of Al Capone.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.

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Trump, who entered the event to his rendition of the national anthem featuring Capitol rioters who he refers to as the “J6 Hostages,” reportedly received donations of $40,000 (£31,877) or more at the event while advisers said the campaign along with the RNC were projected to raise over $76 million (£60.5m) in April.

The former president and the RNC raised $65.6 million (£52.8m) in March, tens of millions less than the over $90 million (£71m) that Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised that month.

The former president, at another point during the event, offered anyone who looked to give $1 million (£800,000) an opportunity to come up and address the crowd.

Two people reportedly took him up on the offer, including one who declared that Trump is “the person that God has chosen” to lead.

The former president leads Biden by one percentage point, as of May 4, according to an average of national polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight.

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Barack Obama Hits Donald Trump With A Harsh Truth About His Home Town

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Former US President Barack Obama said fellow former President Donald Trump is “not considered a serious guy” in his hometown of New York.

Obama’s analysis of his four-times-indicted successor in the White House came during the latest episode of the Smartless podcast that is hosted by actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes and was released on Monday. Obama appeared alongside President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton. They recorded the show in March.

Bateman asked Obama if he’d been surprised with how fast the “protection and passion for democracy was diluted” during Trump’s administration.

Obama admitted he was surprised at the lack of guardrails within the Republican Party that allowed Trump to take over the party.

But “Trump didn’t surprise me,” he said. “You watch Trump’s campaign, you watch his career, he’s never changed.”

“I mean, he comes from New York. There’s nobody in New York who does business with him or lend him money. He is not considered a serious guy here,” Obama added.

“So, I was surprised he was elected, but I wasn’t surprised in terms of his behavior,” said Obama. “I did expect […] there would be some folks in the Republican Party who would say, ‘No you can’t go that far, you can’t start praising [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and saying that his intelligence is better than the US intelligence agencies.’”

In February, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million (£283 million) in penalties after he was found guilty in a civil fraud trial in New York of overvaluing his company’s assets for years to secure loans and cut deals. Trump is currently attending his hush money trial in the city too.

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Trump Spokesperson Hilariously Self-Owns While Trying To Insult Joe Biden

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A spokesperson for Donald Trump tried to attack President Joe Biden as someone who “can hardly speak,” but then struggled herself with a couple of words.

She repeated the non-word moments later.

“It also was extremely damn-en-ing to him politically as it showed what the American people see with their own eyes every single day, and that is Joe Biden can hardly speak,” she said.

Leavitt also referred to Attorney General Merrick Garland as “Merricka Garland.”

Former Justice Department officials have slammed Hur for what seemed more like a personal attack on the president than a report explaining the case.

On Tuesday, critics mocked Leavitt for stumbling over words herself as she claimed Biden “can hardly speak.”

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President Biden Says Netanyahu Is Making A ‘Mistake’ In Gaza

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President Joe Biden said in a new interview he does not agree with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing attacks in Gaza, issuing some of his harshest critique of the country’s war with Hamas so far.

“I will tell you, I think what he’s doing is a mistake,” Biden said of his Israeli counterpart in an interview with Univision’s Enrique Acevedo that aired Tuesday. “I don’t agree with his approach.”

The change in tone represents a dramatic shift in the US policy following Hamas’ October 7 attack in Israel that left 1,200 people dead. Israel’s assault in Gaza has since stretched more than six months, leaving at least 32,000 Palestinians dead.

The White House had resisted outright criticism of Netanyahu’s efforts while urging Israel and Hamas to reach a cease-fire agreement, despite the war’s growing civilian toll. But that support changed last week following the deaths of seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen, who were killed in an Israel air strike after delivering food in Gaza.

Biden has since warned Netanyahu that future US support will be contingent on the protection of civilians, calling the ongoing humanitarian crisis “unacceptable.”

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The president re-upped his calls for a cease-fire in the Univision interview, which was recorded last week just days after the aid workers were killed. Israel has taken responsibility for their deaths.

“I think it’s outrageous that those … vehicles were hit by drones and taken out on a highway where it wasn’t like it was along the shore, it wasn’t like there was a convoy moving there,” he said. “What I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a cease-fire, allow for the next six, eight weeks total access to all food and medicine going into the country.”

The president added the US had spoken to countries in the region who were prepared to move in food and other humanitarian aid.

“And I think there’s no excuse to not provide for the medical and the food needs of those people,” Biden added. “It should be done now.”

Israel approved the opening of a border crossing in northern Gaza for the first time since October 7 following Biden’s call with Netanyahu.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas needed to accept a new cease-fire deal brokered by the U.S. that would include the release of hostages. But Hamas has yet to respond to the proposal, and U.S. officials have said the group’s public statements so far “have been less than encouraging.”

In the Univision interview, Biden also slammed his predecessor and 2024 Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, calling him the greatest threat to the nation. He pointed to Trump’s behaviour surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which has resulted in a multi-pronged federal indictment.

“The idea that he would sit in the office … and watch for hours the attack on the capitol and the destruction and the mayhem and the people who were killed, the police officers who died, and call them political heroes? Call them patriots…” Biden said. “I can’t think of any other time in my lifetime that you’ve had somebody who’s had this kind of attitude.”

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