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Beto O'Rourke, ripping Trump with an expletive, defends comparison of administration to Nazi Germany
WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Beto O’Rourke is standing firm on his decision to liken President Donald Trump’s administration to Nazi Germany, explaining that America is “going to die in our sleep” if “we fail to connect the dots and draw the conclusion.”
While the El Paso Democrat has been making that comparison for weeks, on Wednesday he gave one of his most impassioned cases — using an expletive to describe Trump’s smirk — for why he won’t back down from what he described as “calling things by their right names.”
“If we just accept that and normalize that and say, ‘You know what, I don’t really know that he knows what he’s talking about’ or ‘I want to make sure we don’t break our ability to work with Republicans,’ then every single one of us is complicit,” the former congressman said.
O’Rourke, who’s lagging in the Democratic race, defended his comparisons of Trump and the Third Reich during a live-streamed interview at The Washington Post.
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