Washington [US], May 22: US President Joe Biden harshly criticized his election opponent Donald Trump when he shared a video with words related to Nazi Germany.
Former President Donald Trump on May 20 shared a video on the social networking site Truth Social, which called for "establishing a unified empire" if he is re-elected in November. The original word used is "Reich ", a German term once used by the Nazis , according to Axios .
A Trump campaign spokesman later said the post had been removed. This person explained that the video was created by a random online account and shared by a campaign employee without detecting the words used in it.
"A unified empire? That is Hitler's language. That is not the language of America," President Biden said in a reaction video posted on social network X on May 21.
At a fundraising event the same day in Boston, Mr. Biden continued to repeat this issue and said that it was not the language used by the president or any American people.
"When Mr. Trump took down that video and we got the lame excuse that an employee posted it, we knew that it was Mr. Trump who controlled his social media accounts, because he We brag a lot about control. It's not the first time Mr. Trump has done this," President Biden said.
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates issued a statement calling the former president's actions "disgraceful" in propagating "content related to the Nazi government under Adolf Hitler ".
According to AFP, Mr. Trump did not answer reporters' questions about the video when he arrived in court to attend a criminal trial in New York on May 21.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper