The latest nuttiness. Happy2Me, this even beats your "The View" story.
Earlier today Trump asked the attendees at a rally to raise their hand in a pledge to vote for him in the NC primary. That gesture led to this.
"Former Anti-Defamation League Director Abe Foxman said Monday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asking supporters to raise their right hands and pledge to vote for him is “a fascist gesture,” in an interview with the Times of Israel.
“As a Jew who survived the Holocaust, to see an audience of thousands of people raising their hands in what looks like the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute is about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America,” Foxman told the Times
At a Saturday evening rally in Orlando, Florida, Trump asked supporters to raise their right hands and pledge to vote for him.
“Let’s do a pledge. Who likes me in this room?” Trump said. “Raise your right hand: ‘I do solemnly swear that I — no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there’s hurricanes or whatever — will vote, on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for president.’”
Trump incorrectly stated the date of the Florida primary, which will take place March 15.
“Don’t forget you all raised your hands,” Trump continued. “You swore. Bad things happen if you don’t live up to what you just did.”
Twitter users characterized the images of supporters raising their right hands as similar to the Nazi salute, and the words “Heil Trump” trended on Twitter Saturday evening.
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Foxman was born in Poland in 1940 and said he was saved from the Holocaust by his Catholic nanny.
“We’ve seen this sort of thing at rallies of neo-Nazis,” Foxman said. “We’ve seen it at rallies of white supremacists. But to see it at a rally for a legitimate candidate for the presidency of the United States is outrageous.”
Foxman told the Times that he believes Trump is aware of the implications of the gesture.
“It is a fascist gesture,” Foxman said. “He is smart enough — he always tells us how smart he is — to know the images that this evokes. Instead of asking his audience to pledge allegiance to the United States of America, which in itself would be a little bizarre, he’s asking them to swear allegiance to him.”
“He even threatens that if they don’t, they will suffer and be punished,” Foxman added. “This is so over the top for a man who really doesn’t come out of the underground. He is a man of the world. Even though he proclaims he doesn’t know who David Duke was, or the other white supremacists, we know very well that he knows. So he’s playing to an image.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/07/former-adl-director-slams-trump-for-making-supporters-raise-their-right-hands-a-fascist-gesture/I saw video tape of the event and the whole thing was light hearted and hardly threatening in any way. In truth the reaction of the anti-Trumpsters frightens me far more than the hand gesture. They are truly going bonkers and one can only wonder how far they will go with this madness.
