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Ralph Peters: Trump's Treatment of Press Akin to Goebbels, Stalin

[Breitbart] Tuesday, on CNN’s "Anderson Cooper 360," author and former Fox News Strategic Analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) likened President Donald Trump’s treatment of the press to how Joseph Stalin and Joseph Goebbels attacked the press.

"Anderson, consider what a brilliant move it is to attack the press as the ’enemy of the people,'" Peters told host Anderson Cooper. "Instead of having the spotlight on Trump and his alleged misdeeds ‐ on his daily misdeeds against this country, it turns against the press, the ’lugenpresse,’ as Goebbels would have said, or the ’enemy of the people.’ ’Enemy of the people’ is a loaded term. It does go back to Roman times. But in the modern era, the first person I can find that really used it was Robespierre in the French Revolution, master of the guillotine."

He continued, "Under Stalin, during the purges, if you were called an enemy of the people, it was a death sentence. And given all of Trump’s other ties to Russia and things Russian and people associated with Russia, it hardly seems a coincidence that he calls our press the ’enemy of the people.'"

Posted by Besoeker 2018-08-02 02:08|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Indeed it is, Obersturmbannführer Peters.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-02 03:21|| 2018-08-02 03:21|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Dear LTC Peters:

You of all people should know the difference between those monsters of history and DJT. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-08-02 05:12|| 2018-08-02 05:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Wow. Trump's win must have REALLY upset Peter's applecart.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-08-02 06:13|| 2018-08-02 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Yet another of the many reasons I'm glad I do not pay for TV. None of what I would send to the cable company gets passed along to an idiot like bug-eyed ralph.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-08-02 07:45|| 2018-08-02 07:45|| Front Page Top

#5 The amazing thing about Trump is how he makes people's masks drop and show us who they really are.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-02 07:49|| 2018-08-02 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Comparisons with Nazi Germany are popular and never work.

That said, "Enemy of the People" is indeed a loaded (and dangerous) term and not something a president should say about the press.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-08-02 08:08|| 2018-08-02 08:08|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect it's little more than a personality conflict. Any reference to terms of reference employed by Goebbels or Stalin would trigger Ralph.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-08-02 08:23|| 2018-08-02 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Under Stalin, during the purges, if you were called an enemy of the people, it was a death sentence.

Whereas in today's USA a journalist called an enemy of the people by Trump gets a raise.

Now, given that I could gather of Trump's modus operandi ~~Pears's shaving sticks~~, that could be deliberate

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-02 08:35|| 2018-08-02 08:35|| Front Page Top

#9 A historian admits they know nothing about history? Or willingness to toss credibility for a sound bite. Sad either way.

o enjoyed Ref Phoenix back in the day. Before he went raving.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2018-08-02 08:44|| 2018-08-02 08:44|| Front Page Top

#10 If uou mean he treats as tools and useful idiots because they can't come up with one backbone or moral compass among them, then you're most likely right.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-08-02 09:01|| 2018-08-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#11 The more these idiots blabber about this the more I am inclined to support sending them to the camps.

Almost...

Posted by DarthVader 2018-08-02 09:30|| 2018-08-02 09:30|| Front Page Top

#12 That said, "Enemy of the People" is indeed a loaded (and dangerous) term and not something a president should say about the press.

To be fair, the press is only an Enemy of the People to half the people. To the self-proclaimed non-deplorable half, they are the Saviors of Mankind, even if they seem rabid and a bit slobbery.

Posted by SteveS 2018-08-02 09:31|| 2018-08-02 09:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Dear LTC(ret.) Peters, I understand that you really, really feel loathing and contempt towards the sitting POTUS. Get Over It and give us an impartial analysis or find another corner to rant from atop soapbox.
P.S>: I probably will still ignore what you say...

Posted by magpie 2018-08-02 09:41|| 2018-08-02 09:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Peters was, is, and always will be a POS.

Posted by 49 Pan 2018-08-02 10:06|| 2018-08-02 10:06|| Front Page Top

#15 You tell a lie often enough and people start to believe it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-08-02 10:47|| 2018-08-02 10:47|| Front Page Top

#16 I think Peters has this turned around. It is the MSM that is acting as an arm of the Dem Party. They put out propaganda and sell it as honest news. They are more like USSR news and Goebbel's state propaganda than a true press.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-08-02 11:27|| 2018-08-02 11:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Peters always was a rather lefty sort. He has always reminded me of Powell's cliche. Political officers with delusions of their own greatness.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-08-02 12:51|| 2018-08-02 12:51|| Front Page Top

#18 Ralph's morphing is an act of pandering to keep his income flowing...surefire way to assess that personal finance is a key component of some opinion writers philosophic views! Sadly, it just reduces one to the worlds oldest profession, at least intellectually.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-08-02 14:41|| 2018-08-02 14:41|| Front Page Top

#19 Peter's little peter has completely petered out.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-08-02 15:21|| 2018-08-02 15:21|| Front Page Top

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