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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Clyburn hits out at Trump over Gestapo comment: ‘Incredible but not surprising’

Representative James Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina
James Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, accused Trump of ‘having an understanding of this country that I thought we left behind more than 100 years ago’. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

The senior congressional Democrat James Clyburn has responded to remarks made by Donald Trump at a private event on Saturday in which he compared the Biden administration with the Gestapo secret police in fascist Germany, saying it was “incredible, but it’s not surprising”.

The 83-year-old South Carolina Democrat added that Trump “is given to hyperbole on every subject that he ever approaches … The country got off track after that 1876 election and we are approaching the same kinds of elements today.”

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