Donald Trump has campaigned for President of the United States by attacking and vilifying immigrants and migrants. He has called them vermin, animals, criminals, and other vilifications. He has spread false stories that claimed they were eating pets and that migrant gangs had taken over Aurora, Colorado.[1] On Sunday, October 27, 2024, he held a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in which the most vile, racist, misogynistic, and hateful comments were hurled at immigrants, migrants, his opponents and others. He and his speakers eclipsed the searing rhetoric spewed forth at the 1939 Nazi rally held at the same venue.
If there is any doubt about Trump’s true intentions, one need only recall that he said, “Hitler did some good things, too.”[2]
He repeated his promise to conduct the largest mass deportation in history if he is returned to the White House. Stephen Miller, his human gargoyle that is charged with implementing this mass deportation, resurrected the Ku Klux Klan slogan that” America is for Americans only.”[3]
If reelected, Miller will be joined by another Trump sycophant, Mike Davis, who relishes the prospect of separating children from their parents at the border, declaring “We’re going to put kids in cages. It’s going to be glorious.”[4]
The Supreme Court in in its harebrained decision, Trump v. United States, ruled that the President is immune from criminal prosecution while carrying out his official actions. This undoubtedly has emboldened Trump and his lackeys into planning these mass deportations. While Trump may indeed be immune from criminal prosecution for conducting this horrific plan, Stephen Miller, Mike Davis, and the other lackeys that are salivating to participate in it should be mindful of the fact that the immunity from criminal prosecution does not extend to them.
In 1945 leaders of the Third Reich were prosecuted for their conduct during the Nazi regime at Nuremberg, Germany. Among the charges they were convicted of include Crimes against Humanity. Count four of the indictment encompassed conduct which is relevant here. It defined Crimes Against Humanity to include “ deportation and… persecutions on political racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated.”[5] The international Criminal Court currently defines this offense as ”acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population such as… deportation…”[6]
At the conclusion of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, sixteen of those charged were found guilty of crimes against humanity and fourteen were sentenced to death.[7]
It is disheartening that so many of our elected officials have either forgotten or never learned the history of this conduct. They blithely dismiss Trump, and his new Brown Shirts plans as political rhetoric. The best example of this dereliction of leadership is embodied in Republican Minority leader, Mitch McConnell. McConnell shrugged off his history of critical commentary of Trump, “Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.”[8]
The defendants at Nuremberg were all on the same team too.
[1] Trump thinks the Border Got Him Elected in 2016. He’s Convinced It Will Do So Again, New York Times, by Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Ruth Igielnik, October 19, 2024.
[2] As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would rule like a Dictator, New York Times, Michael Schmidt, October 22, 2024.
[3] Another Night at the Garden: How Trump’s Rally Echoed One in 1939, Washington Post, Phillip Bump, October 28, 2024.
[4] Mike Davis Trolls the Left Online. He could Help Trump Pick MAGA Judges, Washington Post by Beth Reinhard and Marianne LeVine, October 19, 2024.
[5] United States Office of the Historian.
[6] Government of the Netherlands, The international Criminal Court (ICC), Crimes Within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
[7] Tusa, Anna and John Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial, MJF Books, (New York, 2010), p.504.
[8] McConnell Called Trump ‘Stupid’ ‘A Despicable Human Being’ New Book Says” Washington Post by Mariana Alfaro, October 17, 2024.Donald Trump has campaigned for President of the United States by attacking and vilifying immigrants and migrants. He has called them vermin, animals, criminals, and other vilifications. He has spread false stories that claimed they were eating pets and that migrant gangs had taken over Aurora, Colorado.[1] On Sunday, October 27, 2024, he held a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in which the most vile, racist, misogynistic, and hateful comments were hurled at immigrants, migrants, his opponents and others. He and his speakers eclipsed the searing rhetoric spewed forth at the 1939 Nazi rally held at the same venue.
If there is any doubt about Trump’s true intentions, one need only recall that he said, “Hitler did some good things, too.”[2]
He repeated his promise to conduct the largest mass deportation in history if he is returned to the White House. Stephen Miller, his human gargoyle that is charged with implementing this mass deportation, resurrected the Ku Klux Klan slogan that” America is for Americans only.”[3]
If reelected, Miller will be joined by another Trump sycophant, Mike Davis, who relishes the prospect of separating children from their parents at the border, declaring “We’re going to put kids in cages. It’s going to be glorious.”[4]
The Supreme Court in in its harebrained decision, Trump v. United States, ruled that the President is immune from criminal prosecution while carrying out his official actions. This undoubtedly has emboldened Trump and his lackeys into planning these mass deportations. While Trump may indeed be immune from criminal prosecution for conducting this horrific plan, Stephen Miller, Mike Davis, and the other lackeys that are salivating to participate in it should be mindful of the fact that the immunity from criminal prosecution does not extend to them.
In 1945 leaders of the Third Reich were prosecuted for their conduct during the Nazi regime at Nuremberg, Germany. Among the charges they were convicted of include Crimes against Humanity. Count four of the indictment encompassed conduct which is relevant here. It defined Crimes Against Humanity to include “ deportation and… persecutions on political racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated.”[5] The international Criminal Court currently defines this offense as ”acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population such as… deportation…”[6]
At the conclusion of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, sixteen of those charged were found guilty of crimes against humanity and fourteen were sentenced to death.[7]
It is disheartening that so many of our elected officials have either forgotten or never learned the history of this conduct. They blithely dismiss Trump, and his new Brown Shirts plans as political rhetoric. The best example of this dereliction of leadership is embodied in Republican Minority leader, Mitch McConnell. McConnell shrugged off his history of critical commentary of Trump, “Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.”[8]
The defendants at Nuremberg were all on the same team too.
[1] Trump thinks the Border Got Him Elected in 2016. He’s Convinced It Will Do So Again, New York Times, by Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Ruth Igielnik, October 19, 2024.
[2] As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would rule like a Dictator, New York Times, Michael Schmidt, October 22, 2024.
[3] Another Night at the Garden: How Trump’s Rally Echoed One in 1939, Washington Post, Phillip Bump, October 28, 2024.
[4] Mike Davis Trolls the Left Online. He could Help Trump Pick MAGA Judges, Washington Post by Beth Reinhard and Marianne LeVine, October 19, 2024.
[5] United States Office of the Historian.
[6] Government of the Netherlands, The international Criminal Court (ICC), Crimes Within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
[7] Tusa, Anna and John Tusa, The Nuremberg Trial, MJF Books, (New York, 2010), p.504.
[8] McConnell Called Trump ‘Stupid’ ‘A Despicable Human Being’ New Book Says” Washington Post by Mariana Alfaro, October 17, 2024.