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Trump glorifies Putin, uses Nazi rhetoric in campaign speech

Durham | Republican polling leader Donald Trump approvingly quoted autocrats Vladimir Putin of Russia and Viktor Orban of Hungary, part of an ongoing effort to deflect from his criminal prosecutions and spin alarms about eroding democracy against US President Joe Biden.

His speech at a presidential campaign rally on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) also reprised dehumanising language targeting immigrants that historians have likened to past authoritarians, including a reference that some civil rights advocates and experts in extremism have compared to Adolf Hitler’s fixation on blood purity.

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