“Echoing” Fascists: The rising alarm in Donald Trump’s Rhetoric

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Four weeks until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump is facing backlash after saying immigrants coming into the U.S. are “poisoning the blood of our country.” Then, new reporting from ProPublic says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas privately pushed for a higher salary and to lift the ban on speaking fees as he was reportedly frustrated with his financial situation. Then, Stephanie Ruhle sits down with a psychologist to discuss his new book on unlocking hidden potential. Jeff Mason, Eugene Scott, Barbara McQuade, Mark Joseph Stern, Jason Johnson, Stuart Stevens, and Adam Grant join.

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0:00.0	Tonight Donald Trump's ramped up rhetoric. His new attacks on immigrants as he
0:06.1	praises dictators on the campaign trail and a new reporting about Justice
0:10.4	Clarence Thomas. His complaints about money and how they potentially
0:14.4	lead to the ethics questions he faces now. Plus, President Biden's
0:19.1	frustrations over poll numbers what he's facing heading into 2024 as the 11th hour gets
0:24.8	underway on this Monday night.
0:37.0	Greetings everyone. I'm Simone Sanders Townsend in for Stephanie Rule. Tonight the rising alarm over Donald Trump's extreme rhetoric as he campaigns
0:42.0	with four weeks to go into the Iowa
0:43.9	Caucasus the first big test of 2024. This weekend the Republican
0:48.4	frontrunner appeared before supporters in New Hampshire and Nevada and said this
0:52.4	about immigrants coming into the United States.
0:56.4	When they let, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country.
1:01.0	When they do that, we get a lot of work to do. They're poisoning
1:05.0	the blood of our country that's what they've done they're coming into our
1:08.1	country from Africa from Asia all over the world they're pouring into our country.
1:13.6	When I'm reelected we will begin and we have no choice the largest deportation
1:19.5	operation in American history.
1:21.7	This is an invasion. This is like a military invasion.
1:25.0	Drugs, criminals, gang members and terrorists are pouring into our country at record levels.
1:31.0	As NBC News points out, the term blood poisoning was used by
1:36.8	Hitler in his manifesto, Mein Kampf, in which he criticized immigration and the
1:40.9	mixing of races. The White House condemned Trump's remarks
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