Democratic strategist James Carville warned Friday that those who cooperate with the administration of President Donald Trump can be treated as Nazis collaborators were at the end of World War II.
The former Bill Clinton advisor made the comparison during a recent segment of his “Politicon” podcast, pointing out that the humiliating treatment that Europeans who helped Hitler's forces face at the end of the war can be instructive as a historical comparison. Carville highlighted Americans and influential institutions that help the Trump administration.
“I am not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and shave their heads, go through Pennsylvania Avenue and spit. I do not say that, but I am saying that happened,” Carville said.
Speculating about the future, he asked: “Do you know … What does the country vary with the collaborators with this regime?”
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The Democratic strategist James Carville recently compared law firms and corporations that cooperate with the Trump administration with Nazi collaborators during World War II. (YouTube channel of the Aspen Institute)
The strategist began to criticize against Trump's agenda, describing it as “nightmare” and waiting for its end. He called Trump officials “antipatriotic”, “a lot of noisy”, and went to tar and plumised the firms of lawyers and corporations that have been cooperating with the administration.
The Trump Administration has applied pressure on multiple firms of main lawyers allegedly linked to the Democratic Party and Anti-Trump causes. Trump signed an executive order last month that asked the employees of the law firm Perkins Coie to be stripped of their security authorizations and prohibited access to government buildings. He also requested the termination of the company's existing contracts with government clients.
While Perkins Coie has sued Trump for the executive order, other companies have tried to reach Trump's agreements for pressure. The Paul Weiss firm of New York met with the president in March and agreed to promise a legal work worth $ 40 million to support the causes of the administration of the executive sanction, the AP reported.
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James Carville has also called the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, a “collaborator” for promising to work with the Trump administration. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images)
Carville saw such efforts to work with Trump as capitulation of his agenda.
“How dishonorous these law firms should now feel? How dishonors should these companies that are sucking them, that they are giving dozens of millions of dollars for 'access'? Do you know what will happen?
“Do you know … what the country will feel with the collaborators with this regime? Maybe I need to go to history and see what happened in August 1944 after Paris was released. They were not very friendly to the collaborators. No. It was not a very pretty view in the streets of Paris.”
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Carville continued, clarifying that he is not supporting this treatment, but pointing out that it happened and could happen to Trump Cooperors, who, he added, has betrayed the United States.
“But I am saying that happened. And I am saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States,” he said, although he added that he does not know what his “commitment” is and advised people not to assault anyone.
Carville called the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, a “collaborator” last month, after the business tycoon promised to work with the Trump administration. “This guy will not be remembered as the best retailer he has ever lived, which he is,” said Carville. “He will be remembered as a collaborator. And that stench will never be washed.”
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