The former president of the United States Donald Trump removed from his social media platform “Truth Social“, a publication in which the expression "united Reich" was mentioned, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
He did so after a wave of criticism over the Nazi-related language from both the campaign staff of his main rival for the White House in November's election, incumbent Joe Biden, and others.
The 30-second video posted yesterday was no longer available online this morning, Reuters noted. An agency source familiar with the case has confirmed that the post has been taken down.
The video portrayed in a positive light what the country would look like if the Republican candidate defeated Democrat Biden in the US presidential election in the fall, and included hypothetical newspaper headlines praising the booming economy and the crossing of illegal immigration across the Mexican border.< /p>
In two places in the video, text in smaller print than the title read: "Industrial power grew substantially /.../ driven by the creation of a unified Reich,", Reuters noted, clarifying that this text was slightly blurred, so at first glance it was difficult to distinguish.
Trump has made some scathing remarks on the campaign trail so far, calling his political enemies "parasites" and said that immigrants who entered the US territory illegally were "poisoning the blood of the country".
His words sparked a wave of criticism from the Democratic Party and from some historians who see in them the influence of Nazi ideology, according to Reuters.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said in a statement yesterday that the video was made by someone outside the campaign and shared by a campaign staffer who did not notice the word "reich" before posting it.
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She added that the former US president, who is being sued for buying the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels, was in a New York courtroom when the video was released. Trump did not answer a question about the publication, asked by one of the journalists who gathered today in front of the courtroom for the case, Reuters explains.
Biden's campaign staff criticized the use of the word, which is often associated with Adolf Hitler's Nazi-era Third Reich.
"America, stop scrolling the news and pay attention, Donald Trump is playing games; he says exactly what kind of America he intends to create if he returns to power; to rule as a dictator a "unified Reich," said Biden's staff spokesman James Singer.
In addition, he accused Trump of "repeating like a parrot" Hitler's Manifesto "My Struggle" ("Mein Kampf"), although the text in the video appears to be copied from the World War I article on the internet encyclopedia "Wikipedia" and refers to events much earlier than when Hitler was in power, Reuters points out.
"German industrial power and production grew substantially after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich," is written in "Wikipedia", the agency notes.