‘Gestapo Administration’
Trump’s creative comparisons: At a donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, former President Donald Trump—who is facing 88 criminal charges from four separate indictments—delivered a 75-minute broadside that compared the Biden administration to Nazis.
“These people are running a Gestapo administration,” said Trump. “And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me.”
The Gestapo comments were in reference to Trump’s “complaint that [President Joe] Biden’s White House is behind the multiple criminal prosecutions of the presumptive GOP nominee, including his ongoing hush money and fraud trial in New York and additional cases stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election,” reports the Associated Press.
“This was a short comment deep into the thing that wasn’t really central to what he was talking about,” said North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (who, if you recall, was running for the GOP nomination early in the cycle) on a Sunday panel for CNN. “A majority of Americans feel like the trial that he’s in right now is politically motivated.”
Trump peppered in some more points as well. “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40 percent because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare,” said Trump at another point in the speech. “And don’t underestimate welfare. They get welfare to vote, and then they cheat on top of that—they cheat.”
As usual with Trump, there’s a tiny bit of truth nestled between the lies and exaggerations: Union members and poor people who rely on government handouts are disproportionately Democrat voters. The point is made even more salient by Biden’s repeated yet ill-fated attempts at student loan forgiveness, which looks like an obvious ploy to win over younger voters, prudence (and legality of the policy) be damned.
Trump’s frequent allegations that Democrats cheated to win the 2020 election, on the other hand, are not well-substantiated. The courts have repeatedly considered the question of whether Democrats committed voter fraud in the aftermath of the 2020 election, with outcomes that have been decidedly unfavorable to the “stolen election” types, across all jurisdictions and considered by judges of all political persuasions. (Dear readers, before sending me hate mail for this point, please do take the time to read some substantial number of the 12 links I inserted above.)
Scenes from New York: Went to Streecha in the East Village this weekend.
“More akin to eating at someone’s home than a formal restaurant, Streecha—run by volunteers and considered a hub for Ukrainian immigrants—serves a small menu of Ukrainian favorites,” reports Eater.
“An extension of the nearby St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, the money Streecha makes from food orders serves as a fundraiser for it.”
Really solid, easy on the budget, and full of information about the war effort in Ukraine. My toddler loved the holubtsi (and being cooed over by old ladies).
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