Trump is degenerating

Trump is 'degenerating' into 'something far uglier' than we've seen before: CNN analyst
Story by Brad Reed  •
11/15/23

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at Mar-a-Lago April 4, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom today to 34 counts related to money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016, the first criminal charges for any former U.S. president.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at Mar-a-Lago April 4, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom today to 34 counts related to money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016, the first criminal charges for any former U.S. president.
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Former President Donald Trump kicked off his political career by slandering Mexican immigrants as drug dealers and rapists -- but CNN political analyst John Avlon thinks that Trump has gotten even worse ever since giving that infamous 2015 speech in Trump Tower.

While talking about Trump's recent remarks comparing his political opponents to "vermin," Avlon warned that Trump's rhetoric has only grown darker and more ominous over the years.

"I think the problem is that Trump is degenerating into something before our eyes that is far uglier and more dangerous historically than what we have dealt with in the past," he said. "It's not just the rhetoric that's authoritarian in this case, it's the policies that he's proposing. It's the threats and the vengeance."
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Avlon went on to argue that "we should all be very cautious about Nazi parallels," but he added that Trump makes it impossible to avoid when he uses "exactly the language of Hitler and Mussolini" to describe his foes.

"The echoes are explicit," he said. "We're heading into a dangerous place."

A Trump spokesperson this week rejected comparisons between his boss and Adolf Hitler and warned that people who make such comparisons will have their "existence crushed" in a second Trump term.

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