Trump and GOP repeatedly echo Nazi and far-right ideology as they aim to retake White House
Story by Benjamin Oreskes • 1h • 5 min read
He's dined with a white supremacist. He's invoked theories espoused by Nazis in their quest for racial purity.

His response to white supremacists marching in Charlottesville? There were "very fine people on both sides. "

So this week, when a video on former President Trump's Truth Social account made reference to a "unified Reich," his opponents were primed to pounce.
The message of Trump's post was muddled, according to historians, but it used language most often associated with Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.

Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the video had been posted online without the former president's approval by a junior staffer while Trump was in court. It went up while Trump was on his lunch break.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” Leavitt said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Still, Democrats and even some Republicans asserted that, whatever the intention or cause, the video showed that as Trump seeks to retake the White House, he often cites, invokes or is connected to far-right and Nazi language and imagery.

"If you understand fascism, you have a five-alarm bell going off in your head," former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci said on MSNBC this week.
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