Trump compares Biden administration to the Nazi 'Gestapo' at closed-door donor retreat

At a closed-door Republican National Committee donor luncheon at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told GOP donors, "These people are running a Gestapo administration," invoking the name of Nazi Germany's secret police to describe the Biden Justice Department. Audio of the roughly 75-minute remarks was obtained by several news outlets. Reporting indicates the comparison came as Trump attacked the prosecutors in the cases against him and the recent indictments of his allies. The Biden campaign characterized the remarks as invoking Holocaust imagery while attacking law enforcement; commentators placed the language within a pattern of normalizing Nazi-era vocabulary in Trump's rhetoric.

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