The US presidential election is just around the corner.
Before that, Donald Trump and Joe Biden meet for various TV debates.
Meanwhile, the challenger resorts to a comparison with the Nazi era.
A new president will be elected in the USA on November 3rd.
Before the first TV duel, challenger Joe Biden compares incumbent Donald Trump with a close confidante of Adolf Hitler.
At the same time, he prepares himself for personal attacks.
Washington / Munich - In the final weeks before the US election on November 3, * the applicants * of the two major parties bring up heavier guns.
The
world has been used to this
from incumbent
Donald Trump
for months, and the Republican sometimes attacks his opponents personally.
But now
Joe Biden
sent
a poison arrow in the direction of the White House, which could hit his adversary hard.
In an interview with the broadcaster “MSNBC”, the former vice-president drew a comparison between the most powerful man in the world and the propaganda minister of the NSDAP under
Adolf Hitler
.
“He's
a bit like Goebbels
.
If you spread a lie long enough and repeat and repeat and repeat it, it is considered common knowledge, ”said the Democrat.
Joe Biden says Donald Trump is "sort of like" Nazi official Joseph Goebbels.
Goebbels helped carry out the systematic murder of more than six million Jewish people.
This is a disgusting thing for a politician to say.
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- David Hookstead (@dhookstead) September 26, 2020
US election: Biden quotes alleged Goebbels quote against Trump
In fact,
a similar quote is attributed to
Joseph Goebbels
.
"If you tell a big lie and repeat it often enough, people will believe it in the end," Hitler's confidante is said to have propagated.
This sentence was only
abused
on Saturday thousands of kilometers away during a
demonstration in London
by opponents of the UK's anti-corona measures.
Trump is not only said after his entry into politics that he
likes to bend
the
truth
.
He often accuses the media of only
spreading
fake news
about
himself,
claims that European nations have much greater problems with the corona pandemic than the USA, and repeats
the myth
at almost every
election campaign appearance
due to the possibility of
Postal voting
would make manipulation easier.
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One of the leading figures of the Nazi era in Germany: Joseph Goebbels was the Propaganda Minister under Adolf Hitler and called for “total war”.
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US election: Biden fears "direct attack" by Trump in the TV duel
Biden probably alluded to this in the interview.
The 77-year-old, who is also accused of lying by the ex of his current wife Jill *, claims to be preparing
for “personal attacks and lies”
in the upcoming first
TV duel with Trump
.
"It will be difficult," admitted Biden.
"My guess is that it will be
a single direct attack
." He reckons above all with
personal attacks
: "That is the only thing he can do."
“He doesn't know how to discuss facts.
He's not
that
smart,
”added Biden.
“He doesn't know much about
foreign policy
, he doesn't know much about
domestic policy
.
He doesn't know much about the details. ”So“ it will
mainly be personal attacks and lies
, ”he said of his expectations of Trump's demeanor.
US election: First TV debate takes place in Cleveland
The first TV debate between Trump and Biden * will take place on Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio.
There will be
two more televised duels
before
the presidential election
.
The television debates between the presidential candidates are traditionally the
highpoint of the election campaign
in the USA
and are awaited with great excitement.
Some Biden supporters fear that the former Vice President, who
has been ahead
in
national polls
so far, could be outdone by the
much more aggressive Trump
in a direct exchange of
blows.
But Biden says he is prepared for it.
"People know that
the president is a liar
," said the 77-year-old in the television interview.
So this will not cause any surprises in the TV duel.
Biden announced that, despite the attacks, he would present his arguments as to why Trump "failed" and why he had
better answers for voters
.
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So far, Trump does not want to guarantee that he will peacefully hand over power to Biden if he loses the election.