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Posted: 2024-02-26T09:01:38Z | Updated: 2024-02-26T14:23:16Z Ex-Trump Staffer Warns How Donald Trump Has Recently Gotten More Unhinged | HuffPost

Ex-Trump Staffer Warns How Donald Trump Has Recently Gotten More Unhinged

Its almost Hitler-esque in a way, Sarah Matthews told MSNBCs Jen Psaki.
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Former Trump White House staffer Sarah Matthews on Sunday sounded the alarm on Donald Trump s increasingly disturbing comments.

The former president has gotten more unhinged in his rhetoric, Matthews, who resigned as Trumps deputy press secretary on the day of the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, told MSNBC s Jen Psaki.

Obviously, Donald Trumps first four years in office were marked by lots of controversies but I think that the type of rhetoric that he is using today, its really concerning, Matthews said. Its almost Hitler-esque in a way, especially when he talks about things like immigration, saying things like, Poisoning the blood of our country .

Matthews added, I mean, he is trying to prey on peoples worst instincts and get them angry and riled up. That is something he tends to do, but its just the rhetoric that hes using is really concerning to me now.

Matthews, who testified  before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, acknowledged that it may sound pretty alarmist to warn of her former boss threat to democracy if he wins a second term.

But she urged voters to listen to Trumps own words, like when he said hed be a dictator on day one , and think about his actions, such as his efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.

Psaki asked Matthews if shed back President Joe Biden if the 2024 election was a rerun of 2020 between Biden and Trump.

I have said that if it is a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a general election, that even if I dont agree with the policies of President Biden, that I would put policy aside and I would cast my vote for him for democracy, she replied. Because I look at Donald Trump, and this is someone who has shown us he will not uphold the Constitution. And so, there is no question in my mind then that I would be voting for Joe Biden.

Matthews said she did support Trumps Republican primary rival Nikki Haley, however, whose 40% vote in South Carolina she said had shown her that some Republicans do want to move on from Trump.

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