GOP Rep. Compares Trump’s Conviction To Nazis' Rise To Power In 1930s Germany

WASHINGTON ― Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said Donald Trump’s felony conviction last week shows that Democrats are on a quest for power akin to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s.

In a Friday interview on a local Wisconsin podcast, “The Meg Ellefson Show,” Van Orden spun offensive and full-blown conspiracies about Trump’s conviction being part of a coordinated plan by the Democratic Party, the media and the U.S. justice system to stop him from becoming president. He urged people to read books he said would help them understand his theory, including “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William Shirer.

“He does an incredibly detailed, methodical step-by-step of what the Nazis did to gain ultimate power in Germany,” Van Orden said. “The historical references and the similarities, the similarities to what the Democrat Party has been doing, they cannot be denied at this point. You simply cannot deny them.”

He also claimed Democrats are manipulating the entire justice system to take down Trump, recommending a book on the Soviet Union’s gulag system.

“The Democrats are going to start shouting, saying this guy, ‘He’s a convicted felon. He’s a convicted felon,’” said Van Orden. “Every single person that was sentenced to decades in the gulag and died there, committed suicide there because it was so dreary, every single one of them was convicted by a court in the Soviet Union. All of them. And what the Biden administration and the leftists have done is they have essentially destroyed the confidence in the American judicial system for over half the country.”

Republicans in Congress have largely reacted to Trump’s conviction by attacking the judge, the verdict and the rule of law itself. Van Orden has