Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Telling you who he is



Forewarned is forearmed.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 10:18 am:
The video posted on Monday remained up for 15 hours into Tuesday morning despite the reference being pointed out by media outlets. The former president’s account removed it by about 10am ET on Tuesday.

Trump’s campaign claimed a staffer did not see the word “reich” before the video was posted and said it was not used intentionally but did not comment on why the video remained on Trump’s account for so long.

  Guardian
Perhaps that's obvious.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the president was in court,” Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s press secretary, said in a statement.

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In the video, a narrator states: “What happens after Donald Trump wins? What’s next for America?” Meanwhile, hypothetical headlines are shown, including: “Industrial strength significantly increased … driven by the creation of a unified reich.”

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The Associated Press reported the headline text appears to be copied verbatim from Wikipedia. “German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich,” states the Wikipedia entry on the second world war.

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“Reich” is the German word for “empire”, and is heavily associated with Adolf Hitler, who referred to his Nazi regime as the “Third Reich”.


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