One of WorldNetDaily managing editor David Kupelian’s obsessions in recent years is to complaining that some critics of Donald Trump have likened him to Hitler due to his increasing affection for authoritarian polices and leaders — despite the fact that the website he runs literally spent years likening President Obama to Hitler and other assorted Nazis and have also likened President Biden to Hitler — all without remorse or apology. Kupelian did this again in a June 27 column, just before the first presidential debate:
It’s been perhaps the most damning and most repeated allegation President Joe Biden has made regarding his predecessor, President Donald Trump – that Trump is a Nazi, or approves of Nazis. Biden made the charge when he first accepted the nomination to be the Democrats’ presidential candidate in 2020. In fact, according to the Washington Post in “For Joe Biden, Charlottesville defines the Trump presidency,” Biden claimed it was his very reason for running for president. He repeated it in his inauguration speech. And he has probably repeated it more often than any other accusation toward Trump.
Unfortunately for Biden, his favorite method of tying Trump to Nazis and Hitler – the so-called “Charlottesville lie” – was recently shot down, for the umpteenth time, by the leftwing factcheck site Snopes.
[…]So the question is, will Joe Biden in Thursday’s CNN debate be able to resist his almost compulsive tendency to defame the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, as sympathetic to Hitler, neo-Nazis, fascists and Klansmen?
As we documented, Snopes — about which Kupelian offered no evidence to prove his “leftwing” assertion — botched that assessment, and Kupelian couldn’t be bothered to actually quote anything from Snopes that would actually bolster his narrative.
Following the assassination attempt on Trump, Kupelian went back to that hypocritical narrative in a July 14 column:
President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, the national news media and many social-media “influencers” have, since 2016, continually likened Donald Trump to the single most reviled human being in history, Adolf Hitler. Are they thereby complicit in the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump?
After all, the most moral and righteous response to the real Hitler was to try to kill him. There were, in fact, 16 known plots to assassinate Hitler, and every one of the participants – from revered German theologian Deitrich Bonhoeffer to “20 July plot” ringleader Col. Claus von Stauffenberg – are to this day universally considered patriots and heroes.
But Hitler was a raging psychopath who murdered 11 million people, while Trump is a successful, much-loved American president who murdered zero people. Comparing the two is therefore not only obviously insane, it’s also straight-up evil – because it implicitly encourages unstable, confused and rage-filled people to consider assassinating Donald Trump.
Yes, Biden released a written statement condemning the assassination attempt, and then briefly went on camera to say a few nice words. But this same Joe Biden, less than a week earlier, on July 7, said: “We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye.”
Actually, the only reason right-wingers like Kupelian are bringing up that Biden statement is to seek revenge for criticism of Sarah Palin for making a similar claim about Gabby Giffords before she was shot. KUpelian’s whining continued:
The left’s comparison of Trump with Hitler has been incessant and never-ending. When in 2020 a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, was being attacked night after night by violent leftwing radicals attempting to burn it down – with people inside – Trump sent federal law enforcement agents to secure the building, as was his constitutional right and obvious duty. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response? “The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way.” Get it? “Stormtroopers”? Trump is another Hitler.
[…]House Majority Whip James Clyburn echoed the same Hitler comparison, telling CNN: “This president and this attorney general seem to be doing everything they possibly can to impose Gestapo activities in local communities.” Ooh, “Gestapo.” That means Trump is Hitler. CNN’s Don Lemon compared Trump to Hitler on-air, as did Democratic presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke.
Throughout Trump’s presidency, Democrats and media personalities continually likened the 45th U.S. president to Hitler. They falsely demonized a heroic, disabled veteran, who nevertheless landed a desk job with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as being a Nazi. And people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even likened Trump’s border detention facilities (without mentioning they were first set up by President Barack Obama) as Nazi “concentration camps.”
Then there’s this video commercial, titled “God made a dictator,” produced by the “Lincoln Project.” Although one would never expect it from a group with such a nice name, and which Wikipedia describes innocently as “an American political action committee founded in December 2019 by moderate conservatives and former Republican Party members who oppose U.S. President Donald Trump and Trumpism,” the commercial explicitly and viciously equates Donald Trump with three people: Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Un.
What’s the real message here? What effect might all of these “Trump is just like Hitler!” theatrics have on lost and angry souls like Thomas Matthew Crooks, the young man who shot at Trump in Pennsylvania?
Kupelian will never admit that these very questions can be raised about himself and his employer:
- Was Kupelian implicitly encouraging someone to assassinate Obama when he published Hilmar von Campe declaring, “Socialist Hitler destroyed free society in a few months. Socialist Obama is close to his steppingstone”? Or when von Campe claimed that Obama’s motives “cannot be different from the Nazi motives”?
- Was Kupelian implicitly encouraging someone to assassinate Obama when he published Erik Rush saying that “Should a Hitler come along in America, rest assured that he will be hailed as triumphantly as Barack Obama” and that like Obama, “Adolf Hitler was a ‘community organizer,’ as well”?
- Was Kupelian implicitly encouraging someone to assassinate Obama when he published Henry Lamb saying that “Adoring Obama worshipers appear ready to give freely to their new messiah the same power to redistribute wealth that our soldiers took away from Hitler”?
- Was Kupelian implicitly encouraging someone to assassinate Obama when he published Jerry Kane defending the slur in stating that “The cult of personality and hysteria for a charismatic orator are frightening parallels between Obama and Hitler. Like Hitler, Obama too is a phenomenal political figure, extraordinary in American politics” and that those criticizing the comparison “are out of ideas or have too much time on their hands”?
- Was when he published Anita Dittman pushing the idea that “Liberals’ blind idolization of Obama mirrored Germany’s hypnotic fascination with Hitler” and that “Obama’s empty rhetoric that energized his followers chilled Dittman, who compared it to lies peddled in Germany painting promises of a bright future”?
- Was Kupelian’s boss, Joseph Farah, implicitly encouraging someone to assassinate Obama when he stated that Americans got a “whiff of Hitler-esque fascism “when Obama partisans in various law-enforcement capacities pledged publicly to use their official police powers to go after anyone they believed to be unfairly portraying their candidate in political advertising”?
- Was Farah implicitly encouraging someone to assassinate Obama when he warned a pastor against giving an invocation at Obama’s inauguration by stating, “I’m sure you would not want to invoke God’s blessing on the inauguration of a figure like Adolf Hitler, whose rise to power brought the destruction of millions of lives”?
On top of all that history, WND is currently likening Biden to Hitler. For instance:
- Farah headlined an August 2023 column, “There’s a Nazi living in the White House.”
- An August 2023 article by Bob Unruh touted a poll which he framed as claiming that ” the Biden administration’s multiple legal attacks on President Donald Trump “shows that “Biden is turning America into a version of ‘Nazi Germany.’”
Further, Michelle Obama has pointed out how birther conspiracy theories advanced by right-wing conspiracy theorists like Trump and WND were “deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks” and, thus, endangered the safety of the Obamas. WND has never responded to Obama’s claim — perhaps because they know it’s true.
Will Kuplelian admit that these references mean that he, Farah and other WND writers are implicitly encouraging someone to assassinate Biden? Highly unlikely. But he continued to engage in projection anyway:
Americans are praying for their nation, for a return of peace and unity and sanity.
And one more thing many are no doubt praying for: That the leftist elites, from Joe Biden on down, including their propaganda media, will STOP insanely fueling unhinged leftists’ monstrous fantasies of assassinating “America’s Hitler,” a man who in reality is one of the best and most-loved presidents ever to bless this nation. They are praying that God might impress into these people’s minds the truth – that Trump is not Hitler, and that Republicans, conservatives, Christians and Trump supporters are not “fascists,” “racists,” “Nazis,” “white supremacists,” “deplorables,” “Christian nationalists,” “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.”
They are fervently praying that this wildly insane and dangerous slander will stop before it results in the assassination of a beloved president, and plunges the United States of America – which Ronald Reagan, echoing Christ’s words, once described as “a shining city on a hill”– into unimaginable levels of chaos, suffering and violence.
This coming from a man who repeatedly smears anyone who’s not as far-right as he is as psychopaths, communists and Marxists who incite violence and are in league with Satan. We have a feeling that Kupelian is not praying that he be stopped from promoting these wildly insane and dangerous slanders and monstrous fantasies that, at its core, show that he really does want Obama and Biden to be assassinated.