Candace Owens compares Capitol riot to ‘modern Reichstag fire’ and claims it’s Dem strategy to ‘assume all power’
CANDACE Owens has compared the Capitol riot to a “modern Reichstag fire” and claimed it’s the Democrat’s strategy to “assume all power.”
The controversial author was responding to a Twitter user who was slamming Democrats for being “weepy and hysterical” during Thursday’s impeachment meeting.
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“It’s just bad acting,” Owens fumed before making the shocking comparison.
“January 6th is the modern Reichstag fire. A political strategy to remove civil liberties and stomp out all dissent so the nazi party can assume all power, unquestioningly.
“Pitiful and obvious to anyone with a thinking brain,” she wrote.
The blaze in the German parliament building in 1933 was portrayed by the Nazis as a Communist plot against the government, and they used it to justify curtailing civil liberties, consolidating Adolf Hitler’s grip on Germany.
Owens has been sounding off on social media about this week’s impeachment trial.
On Wednesday, shortly after the Senate voted 56-44 to reject arguments by Trump’s lawyers that holding a trial of a former president is unconstitutional, she took to Twitter to rip the impeachment.
The staunch Trump supporter said the impeachment trial was as absurd as President Joe Biden’s decision to keep National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol.
“I don’t know what’s more bizarre,” Owens tweeted.
“The fact that D.C is still basically under military occupation and Biden’s confirmed plans to keep the national guard here through to March, or the fact that there are still people who believe this has anything to do with January 6th.”
On Sunday, she tweeted that anyone smarter than a fifth grader would realize that the “radical Left is trying to brainwash the world” into likening the Capitol riot with the 9/11 or Pearl Harbor attacks.
Owens added that “every good dictator needs a ‘reason’ and a ‘justification’ for locking up, censoring, and criminalizing all acts of political dissent,” possibly referring to Biden.
“That is why I will #NeverForgetJanuary6th,” she tweeted.
“Because it’s become a justification for evil against half our country who remain innocent.”
Owens ended her Twitter thread by calling on fellow conservatives to “speak up” during “this important time in our country.”
“For any conservatives who do not have the courage to admit this and are capitulating to the sweeping acts that are being committed against citizens—including President Trump—you will come to regret such spinelessness,” she wrote.
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While Owens believes Trump’s trial is not motivated by the insurrection last month, Democratic impeachment managers argue that the former president incited the deadly riot.
In an 80-page brief laying out their case, Democrats accused Trump of trying to “extend his grip on power by fomenting violence against Congress.”
However, Trump’s lawyers David Schoen and Bruce Castor argued that there is no legal justification to have an impeachment trial for a president who is no longer in office.