{"id":947,"date":"2024-05-22T18:44:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:44:50","slug":"trump-campaign-deletes-reich-video-as-biden-assails-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign deletes &#8216;reich&#8217; video as Biden assails rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"5c53f654ecb6b2e2c397431cfdb6dd0a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:99px 0 99px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M926082ScriptRootC1556461\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/m\/a\/makamuki.com.1556461.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s social media account on Tuesday removed a video showing fake headlines about a &#8220;unified reich&#8221; if he wins the 2024 US election, as President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Joe%20Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>&nbsp;accused his election rival of using &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s language.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&#8217;s campaign blamed an inattentive staffer for reposting the 30-second clip, which flashed a series of fictitious news stories painting a picture of American prosperity, with one including the term normally associated with Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden branded the staffer story a &#8220;lame&#8221; excuse and launched a full-court press over the latest friction point between the two November presidential contenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is the same guy that uses Hitler&#8217;s language, not America&#8217;s,&#8221; Biden told donors during a fundraiser in Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s no surprise&#8221; that Trump was reported as saying &#8220;that Hitler did some, quote, &#8216;some good things,'&#8221; Biden added, referring to a recent CNN story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Biden met supporters, he released a short clip of his own on X, the former Twitter, in which he is seen looking at his phone and appearing shocked that the offending video was on Trump&#8217;s official Truth Social account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wow. A unified reich? That&#8217;s Hitler&#8217;s language, that&#8217;s not America&#8217;s,&#8221; Biden says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pro-Trump video was posted Monday afternoon and was removed around 19 hours later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What happens after Donald Trump wins? What&#8217;s next for America?&#8221; a voiceover asks in the clip as the hypothetical headlines are shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid headlines including &#8220;Economy booms!&#8221; and &#8220;Border is closed,&#8221; one mentions the creation of a &#8220;unified reich.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No direct reference to Nazis is made in the clip, but the word &#8220;reich&#8221; is commonly used in reference to the Third Reich of Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other references in the video, which appeared to have multiple copy-and-pasted chunks of text to fill out the &#8220;newspaper&#8221; background, mention World War I. The &#8220;unified reich&#8221; headline appears to reference the 1871 unification of Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Biden ramped up the campaign rhetoric, he accused Trump of still being obsessed over his 2020 loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It unhinged him,&#8221; the president said in Boston. &#8220;The guy&#8217;s a little unhinged.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Rule as a dictator&#8217; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the post had no official backing and that the &#8220;reich&#8221; reference was unintentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump didn&#8217;t respond to shouted questions about the video as he attended his historic criminal trial in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The post comes as Trump has repeatedly sought to portray Biden as failing to curb anti-Semitism in the United States during a period of rising tensions fueled by the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Trump himself has repeatedly used rhetoric that carries clear echoes of Nazi ideology, including describing domestic opponents as &#8220;vermin&#8221; and immigrants as &#8220;poisoning the blood&#8221; of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While president, Trump in 2017 said some neo-Nazi marchers during violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia &#8212; who had chanted &#8220;Jews will not replace us&#8221; &#8212; were &#8220;very fine people,&#8221; and he has dined with white nationalists at his Florida estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has a long history of anti-Semitic behavior, the Biden campaign said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump is not playing games. 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