Former President Donald Trump on Saturday quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack President Joe Biden as a “threat to democracy” and doubled down on language condemned for its ties to White supremacist rhetoric, saying at a campaign event in New Hampshire that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

“Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. He’s a threat,” he told supporters at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire. “Even Vladimir Putin … says that Biden’s — and this is a quote – ‘politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy.’”

Trump also praised two other authoritarian foreign leaders, calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban “highly respected” and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “very nice.”

  • @iBaz
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    Trump is channeling Hitler, and Biden is the threat to democracy? 🧐

  • @jordanlund
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    Yeah, Putin also said the Jewish leader of Ukraine is a Nazi, so since when do we take Putin’s word for ANYTHING other than “polonium near me”?

  • donuts
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    2011 months ago

    Sigh… I wish upon a shining star that one day very soon we can all look at this stupid bloated fuckwad as resoundingly say “fuck you, you treacherous piece of filthy human trash.”

    • @[email protected]
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      Someone should set up a honey pot. Advertise a trump rally, and then everyone who shows up doesn’t leave.

      If you ever wondered what you’d do if you were around in europe in the 1930s, now you’re finding out.

      • @suction
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        1111 months ago

        This. Americans either act soon or they’ll never get to ask „why didn’t the Germans stop the Nazis before they got too powerful“ ever again.

      • @shalafi
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        111 months ago

        Do. Not. Temp. Me.

  • PugJesus
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    911 months ago

    Trump just can’t sucking on his favorite dictators’ toes.

  • queermunist she/her
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    Doesn’t Biden also call Trump a threat to democracy?

    This seems more like monkey see, monkey do.