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Biden Says Trump Should Be Locked Up; Trump Praised Hitler Says John Kelly

Biden Says Trump Should Be Locked Up; Trump Praised Hitler Says John Kelly

Biden Says Trump Should Be Locked Up; Trump Praised Hitler Says John Kelly

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CONCORD, NH (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden said on October 22 that Republican Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and should be locked up “politically,” as he exhorted Democrats at a New Hampshire campaign office to win the election.

“We got to lock him up,” Biden said to applause at a Democratic campaign office here. “Politically lock him up. Lock him out. That’s what we have to do.”

Trump, the Republican candidate and former president, wants to disregard the safeguards of the U.S. Constitution, Biden said. “Our democracy is at stake” if Trump beats Vice President Kamala Harris, he said.

When he ran for president in 2016, Trump repeatedly presided over rallies in which crowds chanted “lock her up,” referring to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. He did not discourage them from that chant.

This year, during rallies for Harris, her crowds sometimes chant “lock him up,” referring to Trump, who has been convicted of 34 felony counts in New York related to covering up hush money paid to a porn star. He also faces charges of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Harris, however, shuts down those chants, saying the Justice Department will handle that issue while she seeks to beat the former president at the ballot box.

Trump’s campaign of course lashed out and called on Harris to condemn Biden’s remark.

Meanwhile, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meets the definition of a fascist and “prefers the dictator approach to government,” his former White House chief of staff said in a series of interviews with the New York Times.

John Kelly, who has seen Trump operate at close quarters, told the Times that the former Republican president had no understanding of the U.S. Constitution or the concept of the rule of law.

Kelly said the former president would seek to rule like an authoritarian if he returned to the White House. In the interviews published on October 22, he quoted Trump as having told him German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler “did some good things.”

A retired U.S. Marine Corps general, Kelly served as Trump’s White House chief of staff between 2017 and 2019.

Retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and Republican Steve Anderson said on a call with reporters organized by the Harris campaign that he was disappointed Kelly did not go as far as endorsing Harris after his criticism of Trump.

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  • Hitler was a great statesman and military leader. He brought Germany from disaster and made it the leading engineering economy and a powerful military force that took the entire world to bring down.

    I am happy that he was the reason that Britain went broke and Infia got its Independence. Britain needed someone to show them what colonized would feel like.

    Thank you Hitler for taking down Britain that killed 4 million Bengalis that Britain is not sorry about.

    October 23, 2024

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