In their rush to paint President Donald Trump as a racist or compare him to Adolf Hitler, the Left often forgets what members of their own party have said previously.
On Saturday, a CNN national security analyst and senior adviser at the Biden Institute said that part of Trump’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) made her feel “sick,” as though she were listening to something Hitler had said.
Trump, according to a short excerpt on Mediaite, talked about “reclaiming our nation’s priceless heritage,” during his CPAC speech. It ordinarily wouldn’t be questioned or even noticed in a speech like Trump’s:
“The men and women here today are on the front lines of protecting America’s interests, defending America’s values, and reclaiming our nation’s priceless heritage. With your help, we are reversing decades of blunders and betrayals. These are serious, serious betrayals to our nation and to everything we stand for. It’s been done by the failed ruling class that enriched foreign countries at our expense. It wasn’t America first, in many cases it was America last. Those days are over, long over.”
But these are not ordinary times. Samantha Vinograd, who is listed as a senior adviser at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware (named after former Vice President Joe Biden), took to CNN to claim that Trump’s “heritage” line was insulting.
“His statement makes me sick, on a personal level, preserving your heritage, reclaiming our heritage, that sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family and about six million other Jews in the 1940s,” Vinograd said.
Vinograd’s father is a Holocaust survivor.
But if “reclaiming our … heritage” is problematic and reminiscent of Hitler, then Vinograd should also be upset with someone else: Joe Biden.
In 2011, while speaking at the Florida Democratic Party Convention, Biden said, “It’s time to fight back. It’s time to reclaim our heritage!” The former vice president made these remarks while stumping for then-President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
Matt Wolking, communications director for Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), posted a short clip of Biden’s speech on Twitter in response to Vinograd’s claims.
Biden may be running for president against Trump in 2020, and has been reportedly making job offers in several states, including New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Biden already got into a little hot water last week when he dared to call current Vice President Mike Pence a “decent guy.” Biden promptly apologized after leftists took issue with referring to Pence as a “decent guy,” when the Left believes he hates LGBT people.
Biden is going to have a tough time running based on some of his past statements and speeches during the Obama administration if things he said previously, now said by Trump, are considered hateful.