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Fox News nighttime news star Bill O'Reilly came out swinging against certain detractors of the Donald Trump camp, saying those who slur the billionaire businessman as a racist, akin to Adolf Hitler, are acting like little Hitlers themselves.
O'Reilly first said Trump's big draw with voters was that he's stormed the political scene like an "avenger" for the everyday American, "promising to stop the madness and giving blunt voice to millions," he said, during his recent broadcast, Mediaite reported.
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"[His popularity] has nothing to do with fascism, everything to do with furious dissent," O'Reilly said.
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He went on, saying Trump's campaign may not be completely pure, "charges of racism and fascism are easy smears," Mediaite reported.
O'Reilly then said those who are attacking Trump with such rhetoric are actually engaging in Nazi-like manner themselves.
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"It's funny," O'Reilly said, Mediaite reported, "because the people who are doing this, they're using techniques that the Nazis used. By them calling Trump a Nazi and his supporters little brownshirts, they’re doing the same thing that Goebbels … and all of those boys did, because they demonized the Jews, the intellectuals, the communists, the gypsies, the homosexuals. They demonized them in a way to try to get anger on the part of the German population towards those groups. It’s the same thing that those in America are doing to try to get anger toward Trump and his followers."
Trump faced a collective media outrage over his supporters' raising of arms at a recent campaign stop, which members of the press then likened to the "Heil, Hitler" salute.