Former President Donald Trump’s official Truth Social account on Monday posted a video of the crusade that included a reference to a “unified Reich” if he returned to the presidency, prompting swift complaints from President Joe Biden’s crusade and many Democrats who said the video showed Trump governing. as a “dictator” if elected to a second term in the White House in November.
The phrase, which appears on the screen as a narrator reads newspaper clippings hypothetical if Trump wins the presidency again, can be read under the headline: “What’s next for America?”
The fuzzy text reads: “Industrial strength has increased considerably. . . thanks to the creation of a unified Reich. “
The text appears to have been taken from Wikipedia’s access related to World War I. In the Background segment of the Wiki access, the “Arms Race” sub-segment begins: “German commercial strength and production increased, especially after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich, French indemnities, and annexation of Alsace-Lorraine.
The word “Reich,” which means “empire” in German, is related to the Nazis, especially the rise to the force of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. In the Wikipedia entry, the word is used to refer to the unification of Germany that occurred 50 years earlier.
In an interview with Newsweek, Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for Trump’s crusade, denied that Trump had anything to do with the video, or that she had any idea about including the phrase in the mock headlines.
“It’s not a crusade video, it was created through a random online account and reposted through a staffer who evidently didn’t see the word, while [the former] president was in court. The real extremist is Joe Biden, who has turned his against Israel and the Jewish people by bowing to his party’s radical anti-Semites and terrorist sympathizers like Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “
The video was removed from Trump’s Truth Social account Tuesday morning.
Biden’s crusader was quick to jump on the phrase, saying in a statement that Trump is “telling America precisely what he intends to do if he regains power: rule like a dictator over a ‘unified Reich. ‘”
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Speaking to Newsweek, Mark Shanahan, a professor of American politics at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, said he believed the video had been posted deliberately.
“While Trump’s crusade is at times undemanding in the curtain selection he amplifies through Truth Social, he is content-conscious. The “mistakes” they make are conscious and deliberate.
“This story, in addition to the conclusion of the prosecution’s case in the trial against the former president in New York, will dominate the news today. It will be dismissed as a workers’ mistake as the media wrings its hands over Trump’s totalitarian tendencies. The Desired Deviation Through the Republican Party: A Coincidence or an Intentional “Mistake”?
Carlo Versano is a Newsweek editor based in New York who covers breaking news and news. He is an Emmy-winning journalist who joined Newsweek in 2024.
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