It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

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    1 year ago

    He’s litigious and has enough funds to run this for a while.

    That’s actually a big question especially if his businesses are seized.

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      1 year ago

      He’s been pulling millions in donations for his legal defense. He won’t have a problem there.

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        1 year ago

        Claimed and he’s under investigation for the use of those funds. Similarly he hasn’t paid his legal team, it’s a big issue for them.

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      This encapsulates what I’ve been seeing here.

      He will appeal that ruling. They have been trying to set multiple reasons why if should be allowed - and he’ll try them all and then some.

      The court where this ends (before 2025), is the court of public opinion. Or we get lucky that every layer rejects his claims that an appeal is warranted because x.