Sarah Matthews, a former staffer to former President Donald Trump, warned on Sunday that the former president’s rhetoric has become “increasingly unrestrained” recently, and urged voters to listen carefully to his words.
“I think he is.” [Trump] I became more and more free to speak,” Matthews said Sunday in an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”
“Obviously, Donald Trump’s first four years in office were marked by a lot of controversy, but I think the kind of rhetoric he’s using today is very worrying. It’s almost Hitler-like, especially when he talks about things like immigration, saying things like “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Matthews, who resigned as President Trump’s deputy press secretary hours after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, is a former deputy press secretary late last year who claimed that immigrants entering the United States were “destroying the blood of our country.” He was referring to the president’s remarks.
The comment prompted comparisons to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
“So he’s trying to use people’s worst instincts to make them angry and enrage them, which is something he tends to do, but what I’m really concerned about right now is that he Just the rhetoric that is being used,” Matthews said.
Matthews, who claims Trump is a “threat” to the country’s democracy, said Trump’s comments speak for themselves.
“You have to watch what he says and be very careful when he says things that make him a ‘dictator from day one,'” she said in December. He said, referring to his pledge to become “If re-elected to the White House, to secure our southern border and start drilling in the United States.”
“And not just his words. He’s already shown us what a second term for Trump would be like,” she added. “His first term is over, by the way, because he couldn’t accept the fact that he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 and then tried to overturn a free and fair election and led an insurrection in our nation’s capital. Because he was trying to provoke.”
Matthews testified in 2022 before the House committee investigating the January 6 attack, and upon resigning he said he was “disturbed” by the events of that day.
Since then, she has emerged as a vocal critic of the former president, going so far as to say that she would choose President Biden if he were to face President Trump in the November election.
“If I had to choose between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the general election, I would say that even if I disagree with President Biden’s policies, I would put policies aside and vote for him. for democracy,” Matthews said. “Because I look at Donald Trump, and he’s someone who has shown us that he won’t uphold the Constitution. So there’s no question in my mind that I’m voting for Joe Biden.”
Matthews said Sunday that she supports Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who has lost three consecutive primaries to the former president.
“I was really encouraged by her performance last night in South Carolina, even though I know she lost,” Matthews said. “But look, she got 40 percent of the vote. This shows that there is a faction within the Republican Party that wants to leave Donald Trump behind, and that gives me hope for the future.” Masu.”
Trump won nearly 20 points over Haley in her home state of South Carolina over the weekend, according to results from Decision Desk Headquarters. Despite her loss, Haley vowed to remain in the primary, citing the disapproval ratings of Biden and Trump.
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