Alaskan Republican compares Biden to Hitler in tweet

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 25 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Rep. David Eastman compared Biden's "we've been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us" statement regarding unvaccinated Americans to a speech by Hitler in 1938 with the phrase "...my patience is now at an end." Hitler's speech was threatening war over Czechoslovakia.

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With his tweet, he included a link to a website run by Carolyn Yeager. The website contains categories such as "Protocols of Zion" and as a whole contains countless examples of Holocaust denial.

Eastman's comments were criticized during a meeting of the Anchorage Caucus.

"They're analogizing something designed to save the lives of American citizens to an undemocratic, fascist regime that was bent on killing 6 million Europeans. I just don't understand the linkage. And by the way, it's offensive as hell," said Rep. Andy Josephson, a Democrat from Anchorage, according to Anchorage Daily News.

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