Former US President Donald Trump has compared the current US government to the secret police in Nazi Germany. “These guys are running a Gestapo government,” he told lenders at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The meeting took place behind closed doors, but media – including NBC News and The Washington Post – obtained an audio recording. It can be heard that Trump is lashing out at the prosecutors who are prosecuting him in various cases.
For example, he calls federal prosecutor Jack Smith crazy, evil and “a real bastard.” He mockingly describes Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis as “Mrs. Wade,” a reference to prosecutor Nathan Wade, with whom she had a contentious relationship.
Trump told his story in front of several hundred attendees. According to sources, they had The Washington Post paid at least 40,000 dollars (approximately 37,000 euros) per person.
The former president told his audience at one point that anyone “who is currently donating $1 million to the Republican Party” could come to the stage and say something themselves. Then two people came forward.
Trump also expressed support for his party colleague Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, during the meeting. He was sitting in the room himself. The former president said other Republicans should “leave Johnson alone.”
Johnson is under fire within his own Republican Party now that a major aid package for Ukraine has been approved by the House. One of his fellow party members, Marjorie Taylor Greene, wants to try to oust him next week.
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