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WASHINGTON ― Rep. Derrick Van Orden said Donald Trump ’s felony conviction last week shows that Democrats are on a quest for power akin to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s.on a local Wisconsin podcast, “The Meg Ellefson Show,” Van Orden spun offensive and full-blown conspiracies about Trump’s conviction being part of a coordinated plan by the Democratic Party, the media and the U.S. justice system to stop him from becoming president.
“The Democrats are going to start shouting, saying this guy, ‘He’s a convicted felon. He’s a convicted felon,’” said Van Orden. “Every single person that was sentenced to decades in the gulag and died there, committed suicide there because it was so dreary, every single one of them was convicted by a court in the Soviet Union. All of them.
“If you can’t look at the left-wing media … and see that they’re marching lockstep together and pushing a consistent message over all different forms of media, then you’re blind,” the Wisconsin Republican added.Elsewhere in the interview, Van Orden claimed the Democratic Party has taken over America’s law schools, universities, politics and the media — just like Nazis did.
A Van Orden spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on why he thinks it is even remotely accurate or appropriate to compare Democrats to Nazis.
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