Joe Kovacs complains in an Oct. 28 WorldNetDaily article:
Democrat Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is denying he has suggested President Donald Trump is like infamous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, while MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace says no Democrat has implied that, despite an avalanche of video evidence to the contrary.
On “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” Monday, Pritzker asserted: “I haven’t suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler.”
Wallace replied, “I don’t think any Democrat has. I think it’s a smear that they project back onto critics.”
LisbofTikTok is calling Pritzker a “disgusting liar,” posting a video montage of the governor comparing Trump to Nazis.
Kovacs then cited an example of of Pritzker doing … not that:
It was only last week at the Economic Club of Chicago that Pritzker linked Trump’s actions with ICE and Border Patrol agents to Nazi attacks against Jews in 1930s Germany.
“This is how authoritarian regimes do it,” Pritzker said.
“They create these kind of fake ideas that there’s an enemy out there and it could be sitting next to you at one of these tables. So just somebody sitting at your table that you don’t like might be one of those enemies. So let’s round them up, let’s make sure they are the subjects of the laws that we’re passing, because we don’t like who they are. That is what authoritarian regimes do.”
“I can tell you, sitting next to Holocaust survivors, that what they will say in this moment is ‘This is what happened. This is what happened – people’s rights started getting taken away. People got accused of being immigrants’ – this is before the Holocaust really took place.”
Kovacs made no mention of the fact that his employer literally spent years directly likening President Obama to Hitler and other assorted Nazis — even though that would be a key mitigating factor here. But Kovacs clearly doesn’t want to remind people of this inconvenient fact.
Not helping matters is the image Kovacs used to illustrate his article — “President Donald Trump awaits the arrival of Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani for a meeting aboard Air Force One during a refueling stop in Doha, Qatar.” That image certainly looks Hitlerian, while Kovacs fails to explain why it’s not.