Trump's Rhetoric, Always Extreme, Is Getting More So
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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It's a strategy that gets him lots of attention and that fuels his base.
NPR's Juana Summers talks to White House correspondent Franco Ordonez and domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef about Trump's use of increasingly autocratic statements and social media posts.
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| 0:15.8 | slash donate. Nothing about former President Donald Trump's language or actions has ever been |
| 0:28.9 | particularly subtle but in recent weeks his rhetoric has taken a darker turn. |
| 0:35.0 | We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascist, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. |
| 0:47.0 | That's the former president in a Veterans Day speech talking about his political enemies. |
| 0:52.0 | He went on to say... The threat from... talking about his political enemies. |
| 0:52.8 | He went on to say, |
| 0:53.9 | The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, |
| 0:58.4 | dangerous, engraved than the threat from within. |
| 1:01.8 | Our threat is from within. Our threat is from within. |
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