Critics are calling out Donald Trump after the previous president on Sunday advocated for police to be allowed “one really violent day” by which they might be “terribly tough” with anybody they think of a criminal offense.
“One tough hour, and I imply actual tough, the phrase will get out, and it’ll finish instantly. Finish instantly,” Trump stated of his plan to cease crime. “You realize, it’ll finish instantly.”
Talking within the swing state of Pennsylvania, Trump urged that Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.) ― who, exterior of politics, owns auto dealerships ― might in some way be answerable for such an effort “for sooner or later.”
“This chills me,” historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, writer of books about fascism and authoritarianism, wrote on X.
Others additionally slammed Trump, with many pointing to horrifying historic parallels going again to Nazi Germany:
