It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

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    1 year ago

    The guy is facing like dozens of criminal charges. How can someone like that run for presidency in the first place?

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      1 year ago

      Innocent until proven guilty. It’s important to remember that.

      However, I’d argue the President of the United States should be held to a higher standard than merely “not convicted.”

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        1 year ago

        Hasn’t he now said things in open court multiple times that would be taken as direct admissions coming from anyone else?