Stand: November 2nd, 2024, 5:35 p.m
Von: Patrick Mayer
PressSplit
Immediately before the 2024 US election, Donald Trump is threatening and denigrating entire population groups. ZDF correspondent Elmar Theveßen warns urgently.
Washington DC – The US election on Tuesday (November 5th) will decide: Will Kamala Harris become the first female president of the United States? Or will Donald Trump become head of government and head of state in one person for the second time after his first term in office (2017 to 2021), making him the 47th president of the world political and military power?
Statements by Donald Trump: ZDF journalist Elmar Theveßen reacts with concern
While Trump posed as a garbage man during a campaign appearance in Green Bay and questioned the US’s NATO commitments in New York, Harris’ tone and choice of words, known as moderate, have recently noticeably tightened.
Shortly before the showdown, Trump’s statements were aimed in such a xenophobic and inflammatory direction that a well-known ZDF-Journalist felt compelled to point out that the criticism that the ex-president was behaving like a fascist should be taken seriously.
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“You can say that Donald Trump is catching up,” explained US correspondent Elmar Theveßen late on Wednesday evening (October 30) on the “Markus Lanz” program. And further: “In the end it could be a few thousand votes that make the difference.” A large part of what Trump claims is “simply a lie and pure insult,” he said. The experienced journalist said he drove across the country for his research and explained: “I don’t see a destroyed America anywhere. The economic data is excellent.”
Last but not least, it was John Kelly, the former chief of staff in the White House, and the former chief of staff, Mark Milley, “who called Trump a fascist. Then it is said that that is impossible, that it is an insult without evidence,” said Theveßen about the fascist thesis described. American research into fascism has made a clear statement, he said, “that all the elements that we have experienced in the last few years of Donald Trump simply prove that these are fascist tendencies.”
Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris: The tone is getting (even) rougher before the US election
Although Harris avoided the word “fascist,” she called Trump a “petty tyrant” and a “would-be dictator.” “You can see that she is adapting. That she too takes a tougher approach to Trump. That she’s a little bit into his style. Not that extreme, but in that direction. “I’m really excited to see how this turns out,” said journalist Julia Löhr in the ZDF-Show: “Above all, I wonder whether Trump will accept the result if it goes in their favor. I’m afraid not. And what will we experience then?”
Theveßen then referred to an unspecified survey in the swing states as to how many citizens there believe that the result of the US election will not be recognized and whether violence could occur. “A clear majority of the population says that they expect violence afterwards. And 90 percent of Democrats are firmly convinced that Donald Trump will not recognize the result,” said the 57-year-old Rhinelander: “Yesterday he (29. October, Hon. d. Red.) said again at an event in Pennsylvania: ‘If the Democrats win, it can only be because they cheated.’”
Donald Trump before the US election: Republicans rail against migrants
The Republican Party’s presidential candidate recently railed against immigrants and people with a migrant background during a campaign appearance in front of 20,000 party supporters at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 27th. The USA is “an occupied country,” said the 78-year-old, for example.
And he literally threatened: “On day one I will launch the largest deportation program in American history. I save every city and every place that they invaded and conquered.” In the past few weeks, he has repeatedly referred to immigrants as “criminals.”
On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history.
Illegal migrants would “poison the blood of our country,” said Trump, and polemically announced that as future president he would “use the military” domestically and set up internment camps. If necessary, he would use the National Guard against “radical left-wing lunatics,” he further explained. It remains thematically charged, personally heated and verbally drastic until November 5th and the showdown of the US election in the seven American swing states. And possibly beyond. (pm)
