Trump - "I concede my time to the VP because I'm out of useful things to say. I do, however reserve the right to complain about 60 Minutes not interviewing me!"
The purge is a fictional idea that made for a great movie.
The night of long knives was an actual historical event involving an actual purge of political opponents. Hitler, his gestapo, and his SS soldiers, silenced political dissidents and consolidated power, solidifying Hitler as the supreme leader of Germany.
If you want to learn more you can look up the night of long knives, or operation hummingbird.
I'd say kristallnacht (translated as night of the broken glass) more than the long knives. The long knives were purging their own ranks of those they see unfit. That would be killing every LGBTQ and racial or religious minority within the Republican party.
“You see these guys walking out with air conditioners with refrigerators on their back, the craziest thing,” Trump said. “And the police aren’t allowed to do their job. They’re told, if you do anything, you’re gonna lose your pension.
“They’re not allowed to do it because the liberal left won’t let them do it. The liberal left wants to destroy them, and they want to destroy our country.”
In a passage that provoked a storm on social media, the former president and Republican nominee then said: “If you had one day, like one real rough, nasty day with the drug stores as an example, where, when they start walking out with …”
He then trailed off in a digression to falsely accuse Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, of introducing a practice in California when she was attorney general that exonerated thieves from prosecution of items worth less than $950.
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u/297andcounting Oct 01 '24
Trump - "I concede my time to the VP because I'm out of useful things to say. I do, however reserve the right to complain about 60 Minutes not interviewing me!"