Democrats Can Say ‘Hitler’ All Day Long, Forget ‘Fact Checkers’
20th June 2025
The “No Kings” rally against President Trump on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: “Eric Swalwell ‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’ Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage.” That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those “independent fact-checkers.”
Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) says this repeatedly, and Mediaite added it’s a regular line from Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.). A while back, Fox News host Neil Cavuto offered some mild pushback: “So you don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?” If we compared Clyburn to a mass-murdering dictator, would that be “a little hyperbolic”?
Two months ago at a similar “Hands Off” rally, Swalwell offered the same schtick to excite the leftist crowd: “This is what kicking the s—t out of fascism looks like!”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz can rant at a law-school commencement ceremony that ICE is “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” and no one pounces on the Nazi smears.
You can put “Hitler” in the search engine at PolitiFact and you won’t find them ever doing a fact check that says “Trump is not a carbon copy of Hitler” or “our immigration law enforcement personnel are not the Gestapo.”
However, on June 18, PolitiFact’s Madison Czopek was throwing flags on Walz’s behalf after the horrific assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home. The Patriot Oasis X account was ruled “False” that “Governor Tim Walz has DELETED every post he made praising Minnesota (assassin) Vance Boelter.”