SAN FRANCISCO — President Joe Biden ripped former President Donald Trump for describing his political opponents as “vermin,” reminding donors it is not the first time his likely 2024 challenger has referenced Nazi Germany.
“In just the last few days, Trump has said [if he] returns office he’s gonna go after all those who oppose him and wipe out what he called the vermin in America, quote the ‘vermin’ in America — a specific phrase because it’s just a specific meaning,” Biden said during a fundraiser Tuesday hosted by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in San Francisco on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
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The president added: “[It’s the] language you heard Nazi Germany in the ’30s. That [isn’t] even the first time. Trump also recently talked about blood of America has been poisoned. The blood in America has been poisoned. Again, echoes the same phrases used in Nazi Germany.”
Biden, who has increasingly criticized Trump before next year’s general election, contended there are “a lot of reasons” to be against Trump and that “damn he shouldn’t be president.” He also referred to the former president’s attacks on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which drew boos from the crowd in her hometown.
“You remember Trump told us he was going to win so much we’d get get tired of winning… oh man, I shouldn’t get started,” Biden said. “Let me tell you one thing that’s true. We got tired of Trump. The truth is the guy can’t get tired of losing.”
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Trump told a crowd last weekend in New Hampshire that he would “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.”
The Trump campaign has defended Trump’s statement, asserting his critics “are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
