'All the alarms going off all at once': Trump leans into extremism as election approaches

BUT HEY, ONCE YOU'RE GETTING PEOPLE RILED UP TO DO THEIR WORST, WHO AMONG US THINKS THAT A LITTLE FACT CHECKING IS GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO STOP WHAT YOU HAVE STARTED? THIS GROSS, EVEN DARKER THAN USUAL TURN FROM THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, COMES AT A VERY LATE MOMENT IN THEA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. AND IT COMES AT A TIME WHEN SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T IGNORE IS RAISING ITS HEAD AGAIN IN THEIR POLITICAL CIRCLES. AND THAT, I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THIS, BUT IT'S PART OF THE NEWS CYCLE AGAIN FROM THEM. IT'S HOLOCAUST DENIAL. AND ITH SAY IT'S COME UP FROM T AGAIN BECAUSE OF COURSE, WE HAD TRUMP HOST A DINNER FOR RAPPER KANYE WEST AFTER WEST SAID HE WAS GOING DEAF CON-3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE. MR. SHWEST'S DINNER COMPANION W A SELF-AVOWED NAZI WITH A LARGE ONLINE FOLLOWING. WE RECENTLY HAD A MAJOR POINT OF AWKWARDNESS BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND ONE OF THEIR LARGEST DONORS. REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP SAID THE MEDAL OF HONOR WAS A BAD THING BECAUSE MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY WHO RECEIVE THAT HIGHEST MILITARY HONOR WE RECEIVE AS A NATION, THEY HAVE USUALLY BEEN SHOT OR KILLED IN DEFENSE OF THEIR COUNTRY BY THE TIME THEY RECEIVE THAT AWARD? YOU REMEMBER THE CONTEXT OF WHY HE SAID THAT? THE REASON HE SAID THAT, THE RIFF THAT LED HIM TO THAT IS BECAUSE HE WAS SAYING THE MEDAL OF HONOR IS BAD COMPARED WITH ANOTHER MEDAL THAT HE SAID WAS BETTER. BECAUSE THE OTHER MEDAL HE SAID WAS BETTER WAS THE ONE HE HAD GIVEN TO HIS BILLIONAIRE DONOR MIRIAM ADDLESON. WHY WAS HE TALKING ABOUT THE FACT HE GAVE IT TO HER YEARS AGO? WHY WAS HE BRINGING THAT UP NOW ON B THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL? BECAUSE HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE NICE TO HER. HE HAD TO MAKE NICE TO HER BECAUSE HE WANTS HER MONEY FOR THE CAMPAIGN AGAIN THIS YEAR.HI AND HE HAD TO MAKE SOMETHING UP TO HERET BECAUSE A BUNCH OF TEX MESSAGES WERE LEAKED IN WHICH HIS RUNNING MATE JD VANCE TALKS SMACK ABOUT MRS. ADELSON AND HER HUSBAND. THOSE DISPARAGING MESSAGES WERE LEAKED TO THE PRESS BY THE PERSON TO WHOM JD VANCE SENT THE TEXTS. THIS IS A MAN WHO JD VANCE WAS TEXTING WITH A LOT. INCLUDING TEXTING THIS MAN DISPARAGING REMARKS ABOUT A FAMOUS JEWISH REPUBLICAN TEXTIG WITH ABOUT THAT, THE GUY WHO LEAKED THE MESSAGES TO THE PRESS, IS HIMSELF MOST NOTORIOUS FOR BEING A HOLOCAUST DENIER. AND NOW, SENATOR VANCE IS DUE TO GO DO A BIG PUBLIC EVENT WITH A FORMER FOX NEWS HOST WHO JUST SPOKE AT THE RNC WHO THEN FOLLOWED THAT UP W WITH A BIG PUBLIC VASING LAUDATORY INTERVIEW WITH YET ANOTHER HOLOCAUST DENIER WHOM HE PRAISED AS THE BEST PUBLIC HISTORIAN IN AMERICA. A MAN WHO SAYS THE UNITED STATES FOUGHT ON THE WRONG SIDE IN WORLD WAR II, THAT HITLER WAS NOT THE REAL BAD GUY IN WORLD WAR II. THAT HITLER HAS GONE TO HEAVEN. AND WHO HAS SAID IT'S A MYTH THAT THE NAZIS EVER REALLY SET OUT TO KILL THE JEWS. IT IS ASTONISHING THAT HOLOCAUST DENIAL IS NOT AN ACCIDENTAL BRUSH WITH THIS CAMPAIGN BUT SOMETHING THAT KEEPS COMING UP OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT'S LIKE, IMPOLITE. IT'SMP REALLY CONSEQUENTIAL, AN IT'S REALLY WORRYING THAT THIS IS ARR RECURRING THING IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. THAT THIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, THAT THIS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KEEPS CHURNING UP NEW ASSOCIATIONS WITH HOLOCAUST DENIERS EVERY FEWHO WEEKS OR MONTHS. BECAUSE WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS? WHAT ISPL HOLOCAUST DENIAL FOR? WHAT PURPOSE DOES IT SERVE? HOLOCAUST DENIERS DON'T THINK THERE'S BEEN A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING OR THERE'S BEEN SORT OF SOME GOOD FAITH MISTAKE ABOUT WHATD REALLY HAPPENED IN HISTORY. WHAT HOLOCAUST DENIERS ARE CONTENDING IS THAT A DELIBERATE LIE HAS BEEN CONCOCTED TO MAKE US BELIEVE SOMETHING THATED ISN ACTUALLY TRUE, TO MAKE US BELIEVE THAT THE HISTORY WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT, WHAT HAPPENED IN WORLD WAR II, IS A HOAX. A HOAX PERPETRATED BY THE JEWS TO MAKE GERMANY LOOK BAD WHEN GERMANY DOESN'T REALLY DESERVE THAT.ES WHEN HITLER REALLY WASN'T SO BAD. HOLOCAUST DENIERS SAY NOT ONLY THAT THE HOLOCAUST DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN, BUT THE MYTH OF THE HOLOCAUST WAS INVENTED AS A HOAX TO MAKE NAZISM AND FASCISM LOOK BACK WHEN REALLY THEY'RE NOT BAD AT ALL, THEY'RE GOOD. THAT'S THE FIRST LEVEL IMPLICATION OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL. IT'S NOT ONLY A BAD AND DANGEROUS THING BECAUSE IT'S AN OVERT EFFORT TO REHABILITATE NAZISM ANDTE FASCISM AND WHITE WASH WHAT F IS BAD ABOUT THOSE A THINGS, IT'S ALSO BAD BECAUSE IT ENTAILS A CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT THE WORLD TODAY. WHICH ULTIMATELY DEMANDS THAT WE GET RIDTE OF DEMOCRACY AND GET OURSELVES A STRONGMAN GOVERNMENT INSTEAD. BECAUSE HOLOCAUST DENIAL ISN'T JUST, OH, I'M FUZZY ON WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO. HOLOCAUST DENIAL, PARTICULARLY THE KIND BEING PROMOTED BY THE GUY WHO JD VANCE IS ABOUT TO APPEAR WITH, THIS VARIETY OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL IS THE CONTENTION THAT THERE IS A CONSPIRACY THAT IS TEACHING YOU A LIE, T THAT IS TRYING TO MAKE YOU BELIEVE A MYTH ABOUT SOME BAD THING HAVING HAPPENED TO TH JEWISH PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN, AND WHY HAVE YOU BEEN TAUGHT THIS MYTH ABOUT A BAD THING HAPPENING TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHEN IT DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN? WELL, THAT'S THE JEWS WHO ARE TEACHING YOU THAT MYTH, BECAUSE IT Y SERVES JEWISH INTERESTS, B JEWS ARE SO POWERFUL AND SO CONNIVING THAT THEY HAVE INVENTED THIS FAKE HISTORY AND MADE US ALL BELIEVE IT. THE CONTENTION OF THE HOLOCAUST DENIERS IS THAT NOTHING BAD ACTUALLY T HAPPENED TO THE JEWS. YOU HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED INTO BELIEVING IT DID BECAUSE JEWS ARE SECRETLY THIS UNIMAGINABLY POWERFUL CABAL TO GET WHAT THEY WANT. WHAT DO THEY WANT? THEY WANT WHITE CHRISTIANS TO LOOK BAD SO THEY CAN BE IN CHARGE. THEY WANT TO DESTROY THE WHITE RACE. THEY WANTOY TO DESTROY CHRISTIANITY, THEY WANT TO RULE THE WWORLD. AND THE IMPLICATION OF THIS IS THAT IFOF THERE'S A GROUP THAT POWERFUL CONSPIRING AGAINST CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY STOP THEM? CERTAINLY THERE'S NO POINT IN ENGAGING IN DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PROCESSES BECAUSE, HEY, IF THE REAL POWER IS IN THE HANDS OF THIS SECRET EVIL ELITE OPERATED BEHIND THE SCENES THEN NOTHING YOU DO IN SO-CALLED POLITICS IS EVER GOING TO MATTER. THE EVIL CABAL WILL KEEP PULLINC THE STRINGS. DON'T BOTHER PARTICIPATING IN POLITICS. IT'S ALL A RUSE, A HOAX, YOU KNOW A THERE'S AN EVIL CONSPIRA RUNNING EVERYTHING. IN THAT FORMULATION, DEMOCRACY IS FOR SUCKERS. NAIVE AND MAYBE EVEN EVIL, IF IT ALLOWED THESE EVIL POWERFUL GROUPS LIKE JEWISH PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AMONG US, THE CHRISTIANS, WHO ARE EVER MORE THEIR VICTIMS. SO IN THE SHORT TERM, BEFORE YOU RUSH TORM THE ELIMINATIONEST, MURDEROUS ENDS THAT HOLOCAUST DENIAL LEADS TO, THE CONSEQUENCE OF PERPETRATING THIS STUFF, OF PLATFORMING THIS OFSTUFF, OF TELLING THESE LIES, OF DEFINING JEWISH PEOPLE OF D PERPETRATING HOAX AGAINST WHITE CHRISTIANS OR EVEN CDEFINING JEWISH PEOPLE A THE SECRETG POWER BEHIND THE GOVERNMENT OR FINANCE OR WHATEVER, THE CONSEQUENCE OF IT, WHAT YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE IS WE SHOULD GIVE UP ON DEMOCRACY BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO TAKE EXTREME ACTION AGAINST THESE VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY ALL POWERFUL EVIL ENEMIES WITHIN AND LONG PRISON SENTENCES FOR EVERYBODY WHO IDENTIFIES AN ENEMY, AND WHAT DID HE SAY? IT WILL BE A BLOODY STORY. SO NONE OF THIS IS GOOD. I MEAN, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORTH KOREA. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. BUT NONE OF THIS IS GOOD. WE ARE HEADING INTO THE FIRST AND LIKELY THE ONLY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE OF THIS CAMPAIGN, WHILE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET IS NOT JUST LED BY A SELF-PROFESSED FAN OF THE WEIRDEST AND WORST DICTATORS AROUND THE WORLD, A SELF-PROFESSED FAN OF DICTATORSHIP ITSELF. HE'S NOW PROMISING AT HIS RALLIES THAT THERE WILL BE BLOODSHED. HE IS GETTING HIS CROWDS TO LAUGH AT DEADLY VIOLENCE PERPETRATED AGAINST HIS POLITICAL ENEMIES. HE'S TURNED A SKULL FRACTURE INTO A LAUGH LINE. HE'S PROMISING TO IMPRISON HIS ENEMIES EN ISMASSE. HE'S TELLING HIS CROWDS HIS SUPPORTERS WHO HAVE COMMITTED CRIMINAL ACTS OF VIOLENCE ON HIS BEHALF, HE WILL SPRING THEM ALL FROM PRISON BECAUSE THEY ARE HIS MARTYRS. AND NOW HIS RUNNING MATE IS ABOUT TO GO DO A TICKETED TOUR EVENT WITH THE MOST HIGH PROFILE AMERICAN MEDIA FIGURE TO HAVE EVER IAPROMOTED HOLOCAUST DENIA. BECAUSE HITLER WASN'T REALLY THE BAD GUY IN WORLD WAR II, AND BY THE WAY, THE UNITED STATES WAS ON THEY, WRONG SIDE OF THAT FIG. WELCOME, VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE JD VANCE. WITH THAT AS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM THIS YEAR, HEADING INTO THE FIRST DEBATE, THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS TIED BETWEEN THE TWOAC PARTIES. AND THE CHARACTER OF THE RACE ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, THE DE FACTO PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HERE, IS NOT JUST