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''[[How Democracies Die]]'' author [[Daniel Ziblatt]] said that Trump's combined employment of false allegations against his political opponents and allusions of retribution by American patriots is similar to tactics used by Venezuela's [[Hugo Chávez|Hugo Chavez]] and 1930s European fascists.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Camaiti Hostert |first1=Anna |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683933687/Trump-and-Mussolini-Images-Fake-News-and-Mass-Media-as-Weapons-in-the-Hands-of-Two-Populists |title=Trump and Mussolini: images, fake news, and mass media as weapons in the hands of two populists |last2=Cicchino |first2=Enzo Antonio |last3=Tamburri |first3=Anthony Julian |last4=Marciasini |first4=Christine |date=2023 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |isbn=978-1-68393-366-3 |series=The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies |location=Vancouver ; Madison |page=52}}</ref>
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Trump has repeatedly expressed support for violent actions by law enforcement and his supporters. He called for shoplifters to face "one really violent day" at the hands of the police and said that the police are "not allowed to do it, because the liberal left won’t let them do it". He was reported to, during his presidency, have called for undocumented immigrants to be shot in the leg as a way of deterrence.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abramsky |first=Sasha |date=2024-10-04 |title=Trump—and His Supporters—Are Now Reveling in Blatantly Fascist Calls to Violence |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-maga-fascist-violence/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last=Dreyfuss |first=Bob |date=2024-09-05 |title=Is Trump Building an Army of Modern Blackshirts? |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/donald-trump-squadristi-nazis/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}</ref> He suggested that his hecklers be "knocked the hell" out by his supporters and praised then-House candidate [[Greg Gianforte]] after he body-slammed ''The Guardian'' reporter [[Ben Jacobs (journalist)|Ben Jacobs]] while he was asking questions, stating that "any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy".<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 2019 |title=It Isn't Complicated: Trump Encourages Violence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/trump-violence.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 2018 |title=Trump on Gianforte: 'Any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy' |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/trump-gianforte-body-slam-praise-915047 |work=Politico}}</ref> Trump said at a 2016 rally that "I could stand in the middle of [[Fifth Avenue|5th Avenue]] and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters". He had previously joked about the topic of killing journalists several times prior, including when he said that he "would never kill them", before reconsidering: "Uh, let’s see, uh? ... No I wouldn’t. I would never kill them, but I do hate them. And some of them are such lying, disgusting people, it's true."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Diamond |first=Jeremy |date=2016-01-23 |title=Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters’ {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-22 |title=Donald Trump Launches Vulgar Attack on Hillary Clinton |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-launches-vulgar-attack-against-hillary-clinton-n484226 |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>
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During the [[George Floyd protests]], Trump urged his general Mark Milley to take charge of dealing with the protesters. After Milley resisted, saying that the [[National Guard (United States)|National Guard]] should be deployed instead, Trump told his staff "You are all losers!" and asked Mark Milley "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?" Subsequently, Milley wrote a letter of resignation for Trump, which stated, referring to America's role in the Second World War, that "That generation, like every generation, has fought against that, has fought against fascism, has fought against Nazism, has fought against extremism... It’s now obvious to me that you don’t understand that world order. You don’t understand what the war was all about. In fact, you subscribe to many of the principles that we fought against." He ultimately decided not to send the letter to Trump and stayed on his position.<ref name=":11" />
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Trump has been offered support and security by paramilitary groups including the [[Oath Keepers]], the [[Proud Boys]] and the [[Three Percenters]]. He told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" in 2020, before the group participated in the January 6 attack. Both Hitler and Mussolini also engaged with civilian militias. Mussolini's [[Fasci Italiani di Combattimento|''Fasci Italiani di Combattimento'']] was established in the early 1920s as a decentralized street militia that would attack his political opponents. Hitler's ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'' (SA) provided protection to Hitler during his street events and engaged in violence against political opponents. In November 1922, the SA violently took control of the city of [[Coburg]]. During Trump's presidency, several of his armed supporters occupied several state capitols, organized around the Mexican border and engaged in street fights with [[Antifa (United States)|Antifa]] and [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters.<ref name=":10" />
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=== Connections to self-identified fascists ===
[[File:David Duke & The KKK in the 1970s (cropped).jpg|thumb|Former [[Ku Klux Klan|KKK]] leader and Louisiana representative [[David Duke]] endorsed Trump in 2016, pledged to "fulfill the promises of Donald Trump" in 2017, and endorsed Trump again in 2020. Trump disavowed Duke in August 2015, refused to disavow him in a January 2016 interview and disavowed Duke again later that month. Duke decided not to support Trump in 2024 due to his "subservience to Israel".<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 2024 |title=Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein in US presidential race |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-kkk-leader-david-duke-endorses-jill-stein-in-us-presidential-race/ |work=The Times of Irael}}</ref><ref name=":13" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Helmore |first=Edward |last2=Beckett |first2=Lois |date=2017-08-13 |title=How Charlottesville became the symbolic prize of the far right |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/13/charlottesville-white-supremacists-far-right-donald-trump-confederate-statue |access-date=2024-11-10 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>]]
In the 2016 United States presidential election, Trump was supported by multiple self-described Nazi or fascist groups, including the [[National Socialist Movement (United States)|National Socialist Movement]] and [[Ku Klux Klan]]. These groups engaged in voter intimidation by monitoring polling locations in 2016, claiming to have done so both "informally" and "through the Trump campaign".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schreckinger |first=Ben |date=November 2, 2016 |title=White nationalists plot Election Day show of force |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/suppress-black-vote-trump-campaign-230616 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> In 2016, Trump was endorsed by self-identified Nazis such as [[David Duke]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Osnos |first=Evan |date=February 29, 2016 |title=Donald Trump and the Ku Klux Klan: A History |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-and-the-ku-klux-klan-a-history |access-date=September 21, 2024 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> [[alt-right]] activist [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] and Nazi activist [[Andrew Anglin]]. Trump disavowed Duke in August 2015, refused to disavow him in a January 2016 interview, and wrote a tweet disavowing the former KKK leader shortly afterwards. Trump has shared social media content linked to neo-Nazi websites, refused to condemn antisemitic attacks on Jewish journalists, and, after winning the election, appointed Steve Bannon, an admirer of Mussolini, as his chief of staff. During the [[Unite the Right rally|Charlottesville protests]] in Virginia, Trump stated that there were good people on both sides.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":13">{{Cite news |date=February 29, 2016 |title=Donald Trump: 'I Don't Know Anything About David Duke' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-racist-endorsement-i-don-t-know-anything-about-n527576 |access-date=November 6, 2024 |work=[[NBC News]] |language=en}}</ref> Duke endorsed Trump once again during the 2020 presidential election<ref>{{Cite news |first=Andrew |last=Naughtie |date=July 9, 2020 |title=Former KKK leader endorses Trump for president again |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-trump-david-duke-tucker-carlson-election-2020-a9609491.html |access-date=November 6, 2024 |work=[[The Independent]] |language=en}}</ref> and criticized him in 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 25, 2024 |title=DNC afraid of Jill Stein, guns for her in ad linking her to David Duke |url=https://thehill.com/video/dnc-afraid-of-jill-stein-guns-for-her-in-ad-linking-her-to-david-duke/10162782/ |access-date=October 29, 2024 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |language=en-US}}</ref> In September 2024, [[CNN]] reported that [[Mark Robinson (American politician)|Mark Robinson]], whom Trump endorsed in the [[2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election]], had previously identified himself as a "Black Nazi".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Steck |first1=Em |last2=Kaczynski |first2=Andrew |date=September 19, 2024 |title=Mark Robinson, NC GOP nominee for governor, called himself a 'black NAZI!,' supported slavery in past comments made on porn forum |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html |access-date=October 28, 2024 |work=[[CNN]] |language=en}}</ref> [[File:'Racism is evil,' Trump says.webm|thumb|Trump condemns neo-Nazis after the [[Unite the Right rally|Unite The Right Rally]], August 2017.]]
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