Former President Donald Trump's admiration for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is well known, well documented — and the news media has somehow let it remain unknown to most voters, warned attorney and writer Daniel Miller on X Friday evening.
This comes after a week where the former president has been largely absent from the news cycle, as President Joe Biden has faced a blizzard of media scrutiny for his low-energy performance in last week's presidential debate in Atlanta.
"Look. I get it," wrote Miller. "There is more than one issue that’s important in this race. I get that Biden’s debate performance, as well as related issues, is news. But can we also spend some time on the fact Trump seems to have an odd interest & even an admiration of Hitler & Nazis?"
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"Biden was really bad in the debate but can we also talk about how Trump reportedly said 'Hitler did some good things'? Don’t we think that’s relevant to whether Trump would be a moral president and whether he’d abuse his power to do awful and illegal things?" he continued. "I get Biden’s immigration policy hasn’t been perfect. But can we also talk about how Trump said migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country'? That seems relevant given Trump world is planning to deport 11 million immigrants by placing them in 'vast holding facilities.'"
"I get that some on the far Left who hate Biden are really antisemitic," he added. "But can we also talk about Trump hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner, said there were 'very fine people on both sides', and has otherwise trafficked in antisemitic tropes and outright antisemitism?"
The impulse to "both sides" every political situation is strong among much of the reporting class, Miller acknowledged — but here, it is doing the public a grave disservice.
"Trump once reportedly had a book of Hitler speeches in his bedroom. Why? Isn’t that an issue in this race? Why was he so interested in Hitler? Can someone ask him?" he wrote Friday. "Trump seemingly admires Hitler. Has read Hitler. Uses Hitler rhetoric. This is a relevant issue for many reasons. And someone should get to the bottom of this before Trump once again controls the most powerful military in the world. The voters DESERVE answers."
