Ex-ADL Head: Trump Hand-Raising Request Was Intentional 'Fascist Gesture'

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/abe-foxman-trump-rally-fascist-gesture?utm_content=bufferfd45b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The former head of the Anti-Defamation League railed against Donald Trump for asking the audience at a Saturday rally in Florida to raise their right hands and pledge support to him, calling it a “fascist gesture" that he said directly invoked Nazi salutes.

“As a Jew who survived the Holocaust, to see an audience of thousands of people raising their hands in what looks like the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute is about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America," former ADL director Abe Foxman said in an interview with the Times of Israel published Monday.

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“It is a fascist gesture,” Foxman told the Times of Israel. “He is smart enough— he always tells us how smart he is—to know the images that this evokes. Instead of asking his audience to pledge allegiance to the United States of America, which in itself would be a little bizarre, he’s asking them to swear allegiance to him.”

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[radicalliberal]

1. "I pledge allegiance to the Trumpf . . ."

"I pledge allegiance to the Trumpf of New York City and to the fascism for which he stands, one nation under Trumpf with liberty and justice for just a very few."

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Rec for exposure. nt

[spanone]

3. being a 'teevee star' mr trump knows exactly what he's doing with symbolism

he's one. sick. fuck.