Keith Olbermann: Trump, Hitler, FBI, 1932-33 Nazi Campaign, Convince Just One Person To Vote
Keith Olbermann, the host of GQ‘s The Closer YouTube series, has continued contrasting Republican nominee Donald Trump’s political campaign and Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party in the early 1930s, drawing comparisons between the Nazis and the decision by FBI Director James Comey to insert himself in the 2016 presidential race.
Olbermann noted that two days before Director Comey addressed U.S. Congress, in a letter dated October 28, as hosted by the New York Times, stating that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a vocal Trump surrogate, had appeared on Fox News and intimated that the Republican’s campaign had a big surprise on the way.
The host began today’s Trump-Hitler piece by joking that there are only four days to go before the 2016 election, between Clinton, for the Democrats, and Trump, for the “Russians.”
Olbermann stated that the FBI has “improperly, immorally, and illegally” attempted to influence the November 8 general election. He then asked when the American people should “reclassify” their form of government to fascist state from democracy.
The GQ writer presented what he perceives as two options if Donald Trump is elected. One where the United States waits until January when he is inaugurated, and a second where, given what he sees as attempts by the FBI to help Donald Trump and the current Republican Party to “seize control of our government,” where citizens “cut to the chase” and declare the country a dictatorship today.
Keith Olbermann referred to a Reuters article from last night asserting that the FBI director wrote the letter to Congress because the federal law enforcement agency is “so out of control” that Comey feared someone else in the bureau would leak the information first. It’s conceivable that Rudy Giuliani’s Fox News hints could serve as evidence of this.
“Coincidence, no doubt,” Keith Olbermann stated.
“A faction of investigators based in the office is known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton,” the Reuters article paraphrases law enforcement officials with knowledge of the FBI’s New York Field Office, said to have found the Clinton-aide Huma Abedin-Anthony Weiner emails when investigating the former congressman for sexual misconduct with a minor.
The host stated that if the allegations are true, he feels they would be “grounds to close” the FBI’s New York office, fire everyone involved, and hire a special prosecutor to investigate the entire affair.
Obermann stated that through “acting politically” in the weeks leading up to a presidential election, members of the FBI may have violated the Hatch Act of 1939, prohibiting such activities for federal agents.
Judge Andrew Napolitano with Fox News has compared Director Comey’s actions with founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who, after the height of his career, was suspected of using the FBI to influence politics.
“The moment a nationwide policing operation is corrupted by politics, right, left, or middle, it’s Goddamned fascism!” the GQ host proclaimed.
Olbermann then examined, as Rachel Maddow did last night, the fact that the FBI is using the book published by alt-right outlet Breitbart, which has strong connections to the Trump campaign, Clinton Cash, as the basis for investigations.
“What, because there weren’t any comics books available?” Olbermann asked, after running through the many Trump-Breitbart connections.
The GQ host opined that the apparent FBI, Trump-leaning brand of fascism appeared to be one of “idiot fascism.”
The host presented a long list of Donald Trump’s shortcomings, including his Muslim ban, First Amendment proposals, that he calls protests “race riots,” that he is saddened that terror suspects receive food and medical treatment, his plans to deport criminal undocumented immigrants, his plans for a religious test for people entering the United States, and his desire for “stop and frisk” to be implemented on a nationwide basis, before exploding “but he is also STUPID!”
Olbermann held up recent words spoken by the Republican at a Jacksonville, Florida, rally indicating that he was “honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has.”
“As if he won an award for it!” Keith Olbermann boomed.
After referring to Donald Trump as a “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon in a suit” the host was emphatic with his belief that the historical political campaign boasting most similar precedent to the current state of Donald Trump’s is when “Adolf Hitler ran in 1932 and 1933.”
Hitler’s early 1930’s political success was further buoyed by an event known as the “Night of the Long Knives,” where Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, or SS, murdered members of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, both Nazi paramilitary organizations, as well as hundreds of other perceived political opponents, as reported by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Olbermann continued that Donald Trump is “dumber than he looks” and pointed out the irony seen by millions of Americans in Melania Trump speaking out about online bullying in a recent speech. The host stated that if online bullying was a crime, her husband would be serving hundreds of life sentences.
“So yes. We already live in a goddamn fascist state,” Keith Olbermann concluded.
The host then encouraged the American public to get mad this weekend, with “vigor and gusto,” when considering their 2016 presidential election choice. He stated that Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, Director Comey, and “that Madame Tussauds version of a would-be first lady” are each “fascists.”
“They are also, MORONS!” Olbermann exploded once again. “We can beat morons.”
The GQ host encouraged every American to convince just one friend or family member to vote against Donald Trump.
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