Former Secretary of State has compared former President Donald Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, while blasting his supporters for keeping their “arms raised” at a recent rally.
Clinton made the remarks on Friday during an onstage interview at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas. Trump’s former 2016 presidential election rival recalled wondering as a student how followers of Hitler became “drawn in” by the Nazi leader before pointing out what she suggested was similar behavior by the former president and his followers during a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, last weekend.
“I remember as a young student trying to figure out, how did people get basically drawn in by Hitler?” Clinton said. “How did that happen? And I’d watch newsreels, and I’d see this guy standing up there ranting and raving and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought what’s happened to these people, why do they believe that?
“We saw the rally in Ohio the other night,” she added. “Trump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour. And you have these rows of young men with their arms raised. I thought, what is going on? … I think it is fair to say we’re in a struggle between democracy and autocracy.”
During the Ohio rally speech, supporters of the former president raised their hands in the air and gave what looked like a pointed index-finger salute, which some speculated could represent Trump’s “America First” movement.
Others suggested that the salute may have been related to the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory motto “where we go one we go all.” Comparisons to a Nazi salute were also made.
Clinton said on Friday that “Trump and his enablers” would make sure the U.S. turns into a “failed democracy” if they “had their way.”
She slammed the former president for expressing admiration toward modern authoritarian and autocratic leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
“Admiring Viktor Orbán in Hungary?” she said. “Cozying up to Putin and being embarrassed, when he invaded Ukraine, that you couldn’t keep cozying up to him? You know, that is a repudiation of our values and of the kind of democratic principles that I think we used to believe.”
Retired four-star U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey also compared Trump’s Ohio rally to a 1936 rally held by Hitler in Nuremberg, Germany.
“The crowd is similar to a Nuremberg rally 1936,” McCaffrey tweeted after the rally. “A lawless Trump in office in 2024 election would slide us into autocracy and deny our Constitutional safeguards. This is our greatest danger as a nation since 1860.”
Comparing a political opponent to Hitler is not a new phenomena, with critics of Trump, Clinton and countless other politicians having made the comparison many times in the past.
Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia recently shared a video on Twitter that featured a video of President Joe Biden altered to look like the Nazi leader.
A different video making the comparison between Biden and Hitler circulated online before the 2020 presidential election.
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Hillary is correct.
trumpie teared small children from their parents at the border.
Just like Hitler did!
If Biden really won the election, we would have known on Nov 4th, not two months later. And Hillary is the one that is a Nazi.
You mean just like Obama did since that was set up during his administration.
Not to mention Trump continued the practice to keep the children safe when the adults couldn’t prove the kids were theirs. Many kids were kidnapped and used as pawns to get across the border. Others were raped and abused during the trek to get to the US and then thrown away like garbage. Parents of almost 600 kids were contacted back in their countries and they said they didn’t want the kids back.
You sir are full of S
And Xbiden has Chosen to do the WORSE ! XBiden has let Illegal Immigrants to meet the Death’s by crossing the Rio Grand River in TEXAS, USA !
obama started the sep÷and of kids from the parents & put them in cages
Obamby started all of this. No one seams to remember what he ran his run for POTUS on. Reminder. ” I will fundamentally trans form America”. The fundamentals of America are the constitution and the bill of rights. In truth he said he was going to remove all of our rights and laws. He got away with it even though he was not a true American but a Kenyan
she is SICK
Hillary and the democrats are the ones following Hitler step by step democrats always blame the republicans for exactly what they are doing
Man, where do I start, “Killary” the she-devil has her/it’s nerve to spew such lies; but then again her/it and the Muslim-Marxist jihadist Obaa-baa-ma and the rest of the (D)emons use the lie as the truth as their god Satan does! This witch-bitch needs to shut the hell up! Shut the hell up you evil, ugly, lying POS!
Thank you. Well put and so very true
I have noticed that people such as Hillary Clinton and those of the left are quick to accuse and love to accuse of that which they are guilty of themselves . But this has long been a tactic of Democrats from time immememorial. I guess then you can compare Hillary to Lennin or Stalin
Oh, Mrs. Bill Clinton, if it were not for Republicans in this day and age, we would not have a Republic or Democracy. You’re spinning everything now as you have done in the past when explaining your husband’s vast infidelities.
Hillary AKA THE BUTCHER of BENGHAZI has ho room to talk about anyone.
So much hate coming from a good country shame on a president who tries to take over the government when you have a vote you louse you move on .What a big baby and people still follow him crazy.
Look what Killery did in Benghze ! She doesn’t remember that LITTLE Mistake while she was Secretary Of State where she says she was Sleeping when that was Happening in the other Room with Whom We The People ask. It’s all ” BULL CRAP ” !!
Sorry Hilary but i think you are Hitlers double . You and your Democrat are the ones trying to destroy America, Defund police , bail reform, letting people out of jail early, trying to let illegals vote, making your laws, Trying to take apart the Constitution , Trying to take away free speech, Using the FBI as your Gestapo .Telling the American people total lies , daily. President Joe Biden rules by Executive Orders. Planting manufactured evidence to try to get something on Trump .(Russia deal) Spending Tax payers money like is is Money growing on a Tree. Covering up Hunters Bidens deals or should i say Joe Bidens Deals with China. I can keep going , but i think thats enough.
LMAO! She’s a fine one to talk with the red river flowing behind her. She ought to take a look in the mirror before she casts stones. I’m so sick of all this…can somebody please just divide this country. Left o one side, the rest of us on the other…build a wall like E & W Berlin-the Left on one side, the rest of us on the other-once the wall goes up there is no crossing over. There is no way to possibly reunite this country. Its gone way beyond that. I’m sick of Clinton, I’m sick of Obumma, I’m sick of Brandon, I’m sick of Gates, I’m sick of Fauci, I’m sick of Pelosi and the rest of them. They honestly at this point just make me sick. I just want to get back to life as I knew it. 😔