Dem Rep torches JD Vance for calling out European censorship

Ambassador Seth Moulton, D-Mass, condemned the recent remarks of JD Vance Vice-President in Munich, claiming that his defense of free speech is similar to the rhetoric of German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Vance attended a safety conference last week in Munich, Germany, where he criticized European allies for adopting a “Soviet” style censorship style.

“The threat to worry the most in relation to Europe is not Russia, it’s not China. It’s not any other external actor,” he said. “What I worry about is the threat within the withdrawal of Europe from some of its most basic values, values ​​divided with the United States of America.”

While many praised Vance for speech, demonstrating American leadership and defense of freedom, others condemned him as a bad look of American politicians on the world stage.

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Asked by MSNBC’s host Ali Vitali what kind of room was where Vance gave a speech, Moulton claimed that the Americans were “completely unpleasant”.

“It was an absolute shock, an absolute shock among our European allies, among basically everyone in the audience. I think many of us have just felt completely embarrassed while VP Vance really gave a speech, but also an advisory lecture on the fundamental principles of democracy European allies. “

He continued to claim that the speech was hypocritical, saying, “He spoke of respecting the results of the choice. He spoke that he had not closed your political opponents. And he talked about not censoring the media.”

“Problem,” he said, “is that it comes from a man who will not admit the election results in 2020. This is the day after Trump said he should close opponents – Sorry – members of the Committee on January 6, his political opponents . This administration just dropped the AP from Pentagon and censoring dozens of words from Government publications, holding Americans in the dark as they take off the brown data from the Internet. “

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He continued to claim that in hundreds of audiences only about five people applauded.

“I think four were the Chinese,” he said. “Only the Chinese and Russians loved speech. The Russian Foreign Minister actually came out and praised the speech. That is the only praise you heard about what VP Vance had to say.”

Later, in the same interview, he claimed that Vance’s rhetoric was such that is used in Nazi Germany to “justify the Holocaust,” and claims that the right -wing German political party he visited, the alternative to Germany, were neo -Nazis.

“He spoke of the enemy from the inside. This is some of the same language that Hitler justified the Holocaust,” Moulton claimed. “Only after speech, Vice President Vance went to the old headquarters of the Nazi Party in Munich to meet with the leader of the modern neo -Nazi party in Germany. So what was bad in Munich could actually get worse. This is very, very, that, it is very worse.

During the same visit to Germany, JD Vance toured the Dachau concentration camp, A place that has become a powerful symbol of the crime that Nazi Germany has committed against Jews and other minority groups during World War II.

“What happened here should no longer be repeated,” Vance said a group of dignitaries near the entrance to the camp.

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Fox News’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.