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COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF against All Defendants (Receipt # 0981-4751332), filed by State of Washington. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit, # 2 Exhibit, # 3 Exhibit, # 4 Exhibit, # 5 Exhibit, # 6 Exhibit, # 7 Exhibit, # 8 Exhibit, # 9 Exhibit)(Purcell, Noah)

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Donald Trump says he is not bothered by comparisons to Hitler - The Washington Post

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Donald Trump says he is
not bothered by
comparisons to Hitler
By Jenna Johnson December 8, 2015

Editor's note: This story is from 2015.
The comparison between Donald Trump and Hitler is being made more and more frequently -- including on
the cover of Tuesday's Philadelphia Daily News -- but the Republican front-runner said Tuesday that the
comparison doesn't bother him.
"You're increasingly being compared to Hitler," ABC News' George Stephanopoulos said during an interview
with Trump on "Good Morning America" Tuesday. "Does that give you any pause at all?"
"No," Trump responded, "because what I am doing is no different than what FDR -- FDR's solution for
Germans, Italians, Japanese, you know, many years ago."
Stephanopoulos jumped in as Trump kept talking: "So you're for internment camps?"
"This is a president who is highly respected by all," Trump said of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "He did the
same thing -- if you look at what he was doing, it was far worse."
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Trump's answer was confusing and meandering but he seemed to be making the point that during times of
war, more extreme measures must be used.

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Donald Trump says he is not bothered by comparisons to Hitler - The Washington Post

"We are now at war," Trump said. "We have a president that doesn't want to say that, but we are now at war."
"I've got to press you on that, sir,"Stephanopoulos said. "So you're praising FDR there, I take it you're
praising the setting up of internment camps for Japanese during World War II?"

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"No, I'm not," Trump responded. "No, I'm not. No, I'm not."
Trump then rattled off the numbers of some of the presidential proclamations Roosevelt issued "having to do
with alien Germans, alien Italians, alien Japanese."
"They went through a whole list of things -- they couldn't go five miles from their homes, they weren't
allowed to use radios, flashlights," Trump said. "Take a look at what FDR did many years ago, and he's one of
the most highly respected presidents... They named highways after him."
Stephanopoulos responded: "You want to bring back policies like that?"
After a pause, Trump responded: "No, I don't to bring it back, George. At all. I don't like doing it at all. It's a
temporary measure until our representatives, many of whom are grossly incompetent, until our
representatives can figure out what's going on."

Jenna Johnson is a political reporter who covers the White House. She spent more than than a
year writing about Donald Trump's presidential campaign, traveling to 35 states to attend more
than 170 political rallies and interview hundreds of Trump supporters. Follow @wpjenna

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