ANALYSIS: TRUE. “They are broken over there at CNN:” CNN’s Christiane Amanpour uses anniversary of Kristallnacht to compare Trump to Hitler:
She continued as images of Nazi book burnings flashed across the screen, saying, “and in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history, and truth. After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden/Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth.”
That is what we call a non sequitur — not even a clunky transition from marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht to praising the 2020 Democratic ticket.
“And every day,” Amanpour added, “Joe Biden makes presidential announcements about good governance and the health and security of the American people, while the great brooding figure of his defeated opponent rages, conducting purges of perceived enemies and preventing a transition.”
It is true that Trump, like failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and some other politicians, has refused to concede electoral defeat in a timely manner. But no one can “prevent” the transition. Biden will be the president come January 2021, no matter how uncooperative Trump wants to be. That is one of the many great things about our system of governance. That and the part where we are decidedly not a mirror image of the Third Reich.
Until January, Trump is still the president, and as has been the case for the last four years, Amanpour can say the craziest stuff about Trump she likes — with no repercussions, other than a lack of ratings. Worst. Hitler. Ever.