Trump Can't Stand Being Compared to Hitler

[Jilly_in_VA]

Former President Donald Trump is doubling down on his “I am not Hitler” defamation lawsuit against CNN by adopting the Nazi strategy of attacking journalists as liars, with court papers claiming—without irony—that “Americans are split when asked if the media is actually an enemy of democracy.”

Since October, Trump has been waging war against the Cable News Network over the way it has increasingly drawn comparisons between his Make America Great Again movement and the rise of the Nazis in 1930s Germany.

But in the latest court filings, Trump’s lawyers paradoxically argued that now is the “perfect” time to peel back First Amendment protections for American journalists by asking courts to review legal precedent established in a 1964 case called New York Times v. Sullivan.

“The sustained defamation of falsely linking President Trump to Nazis provides a perfect vehicle for Supreme Court reexamination of Sullivan,” lawyers wrote in their Dec. 30 filing.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawsuit-reveals-trump-cant-stand-being-compared-to-hitler?ref=home

LMAO at his lawyers repeatedly referring, in their briefs, to "Adolph" Hitler. They spell as well as he does!

[kimbutgar]

1. Historically the parallels are very similar

I look at the AGC and see these Hitler documentaries and it’s eerily similar to what’s going on this country with a megalomaniac disgraced leader. Hitler came back after being in prison.

[dweller]

2. Whatever ...

HAIR FUROR !


✌🏻

[underpants]

3. I'm sure this case will have good people on both sides

Funny this is, when they came out with the “America First” bit even Rush Limbaugh was beside himself-“Didn’t anyone on the campaign even bother to Google America First?!??”

[Whiskeytide]

5. Sadly, Rush wasn't horrified at the implications, just ...

… bothered by the fact they were letting the tīɡər out of the bag.

[Kennah]

4. Trump isn't competent enough to be Hitler

[Aristus]

7. And even Hitler was just an incompetent who got very lucky a few times.

He was a master manipulator, and that was about it.

[Ray Bruns]

13. Hitler actually served on the frontlines and was gassed.

[Aristus]

16. I know.

I was talking about his time as the Fuhrer. According to the people who knew him best, Albert Speer, etc, Hitler was a paralyzingly incompetent administrator. His governing habits remind me of billionaire tech-bros today. Hitler would just bark out an idea or an order to whoever was standing around, would expect it to be considered a product of genius, and expect it to be carried out.

[Aristus]

6. He probably shouldn't have boasted about keeping Mein Kampf on his night table.

We all know he doesn't read. And even dedicated readers have trouble plowing through Hitler's bloated, incomprehensible prose. But still, to boast about it...

[robbob]

12. Also, famously asking why his generals couldn't be loyal to him

the way Hitlers were. Yeah, he’s a big Hitler fan boy…

[Blue Owl]

8. I thought Dump was a great admirer of Shitler?

Well Donny if you don't want to draw comparisons stop acting like a wanna-be dictator then, and put your country ahead of your own bloated ego...

[grumpyduck]

9. So is he upset about being compared to Hitler

because he'd rather Hitler be compared to him?

[Hekate]

10. How about Mussolini? TFG clearly practiced the jaw-jut & belligerent stare...

All he needs is the mob turning on him to hang him upside down in the public square.

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. Benito wasn't too bright either.

The problem is some of the guys behind them.

[agingdem]

14. "I am not Hitler" is a hell of a defense...

"I separated families, caged babies, ridiculed the disabled, praised torch-carrying Nazis, teargassed BLM protestors, proposed a muslim ban, spewed overtly racist/antisemitic tropes, referred to a US senator as "Pocahontas' and a former cabinet secretary as Coco Chao, insulted our allies, coddled despots, weaponized government agencies to punish my enemies, staged hate vomiting Nazi rallies, plotted a coup, incited an insurrection, broke bread with an out-loud and proud antisemite and an avowed Nazi...but I'm not Hitler"...whatever...

[treestar]

15. anybody can be compared to Hitler. Free Speech.

But TFG is a closer comparison than most.

Making his own reality. Propaganda. Scapegoating a group. Loyalty to him coming first. Believing he is destined to rule.

[Dan]

17. Well there is one big difference....from my reading of history.

Hitler was not a coward.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Opinions are not actionable under defamation causes of actions

You can only sue for false facts and not on opinions

[Cha]

19. That's right.. Hiler is dead.. he Lost.

dt decided to go the path of leading the Nazis.

The path of Mussolini.. that's his problem.

[Jilly_in_VA]

20. Ya know

the Slobfather, if he had any guts whatever, could have taken Hitler's way out when he lost. He didn't.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Here's A Tip, Donnie-boy

If you don't want to be compared to Hitler, quit acting like Hitler.