Former Trump White House staffer Sarah Matthews on Sunday sounded the alarm on Donald Trump’s more and more disturbing feedback.
The former president has “gotten more unhinged in his rhetoric,” Matthews, who resigned as Trump’s deputy press secretary on the day of the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, advised MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.
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“Obviously, Donald Trump’s first four years in office were marked by lots of controversies but I think that the type of rhetoric that he is using today, it’s really concerning,” Matthews mentioned. “It’s almost Hitler-esque in a way, especially when he talks about things like immigration, saying things like, ‘Poisoning the blood of our country.’”
“I mean, he is trying to prey on people’s worst instincts and get them angry and riled up,” Matthews added. “That is something he tends to do, but it’s just the rhetoric that he’s using is really concerning to me now.”
Matthews, who testified earlier than the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 rebel, acknowledged it could sound “pretty alarmist” to warn of her former boss’ menace to democracy if he wins a second time period.
But she urged voters to take heed to Trump’s personal phrases, like when he mentioned he’d be a dictator on day one, and take into consideration his actions akin to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election consequence.
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Psaki requested Matthews if she’d again President Joe Biden if the 2024 election was a rerun of 2020 between Biden and Trump.
“I have said that if it is a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a general election, that even if I don’t agree with the policies of President Biden, that I would put policy aside and I would cast my vote for him for democracy,” she replied. “Because I look at Donald Trump and this is someone who has shown us he will not uphold the Constitution. and so, there is no question in my mind then that I would be voting for Joe Biden.”
Matthews mentioned she did assist Trump’s Republican major rival Nikki Haley, nonetheless, whose 40% vote in South Carolina she mentioned had proven her that some Republicans do need to transfer on from Trump.
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