Former President Donald Trump compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany during a weekend event, stating that the ongoing legal action against him represented election interference. The comments came as the former president called for the jailing of special counsel Jack Smith.
During a weekend event at his Mar-a-Lago club, he stated that those around President Joe Biden were “running a Gestapo administration.”
The former president’s comments referenced the infamous secret police of Nazi Germany.
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“And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me,” he said.
Trump said during the event that Democrats had an inherent advantage in elections due to a coalition of people who are on government assistance and public sector employees.
Trump called for the jailing of Smith after it was revealed that some of the items in boxes seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate were not the same as those filed in a previous court document.
The special counsel’s office wrote that “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.
Trump said that Smith “admitted in a filing in front of Judge [Aileen] Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida – That he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case.”
The former president called for the charges related to the documents case to be dropped.
“ARREST DERANGED JACK SMITH. HE IS A CRIMINAL!” wrote Trump.
During the weekend event, the former president also criticized Smith, calling him unattractive.
Trump also criticized Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and her alleged affair with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Willis is currently leading the prosecution of Trump over his actions following the 2020 election.
