Former president Donald Trump On Monday, he shared a video on social media among possible developments if he refers to a “unified Reich”. will win the re-elections in NovemberCriticism from the Biden campaign.
A 30-second message was posted on Trump’s account video On Monday afternoon, Truth posted on its social platform, “What happens after Donald Trump wins?” and “What’s next for America?”
The background consists of hypothetical newspaper front pages with the headlines “BORDER CLOSED — 15 MILLION LEGAL ILLEGAL ALIENS DEPORTED” and “ECONOMIC BOOMS.”
Twice in the clip, slightly blurred text appears under the headlines: “Industrial power increased significantly … driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”
“Reich,” meaning realm, kingdom, or empire, is often taken as a reference to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich regime in Germany in the 1930s, and its inclusion in the video was condemned by Democrats.
“America, stop scrolling and pay attention. Donald Trump isn’t playing games; he’s telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: rule as a dictator over a ‘unified reich,'” James Singer, a spokesman for President Joe Biden, said in a statement on Biden’s re-election bid. campaign, a statement Monday night.
“Parroting ‘Mein Kampf’ while warning about a pool of blood in your mouth is the unusual kind of behavior you’d get from someone who knows that democracy continues to reject its extreme vision of chaos, fragmentation and violence,” Singer said.
Trump’s campaign has denied the claim and said the former president is who he is He is on trial in New York — I did not know that the word appeared in the video.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random online account and reposted by a staffer who clearly didn’t see the point while the president was in court,” Trump campaign press secretary Carolyn Leavitt said in a statement. .
NBC News has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
When Hitler discusses the creation of an expanded German empire in Mein Kampf, the text in a video shared on Truth Social appears to have been taken from Wikipedia. World War I page.
The site states: “Germany’s industrial power and production increased significantly after 1871 as a result of the creation of a unified Reich.”
The German unification in 1871 brought together the German-speaking kingdoms and duchies that had remained independent after the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.
Another sentence in the video reads: “World War I (often abbreviated as World War 1 or World War I) Causes of World War I.”
Trump has used 20th-century German historical comparisons to attack his opponents: earlier this month, he compared the Biden administration to the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s secret police force.
Late last year, Trump said that immigrants “to poison the blood” America, he said, reflecting parts of Mein Kampf but himself unaware Hitler used similar language and denied the comments were racist.
Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner contributed.