Echos of Adolph Hitler's pre-World War II tactics are at the heart of Donald Trump's classified documents scandal, according to a new analysis by two top legal experts.Harvard Law's Laurence Tribe, who has argued three-dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, penned the analysis with Dennis...
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Legal experts: Trump is employing Hitler's 'Munich model' as he continues his war with the DOJ
Bob Brigham
October 15, 2022
Legal experts: Trump is employing Hitler's 'Munich model' as he continues his war with the DOJ
Composite image, Adolph Hitler via Wikimedia Commons and Donald Trump photo by Gage Skidmore.
Echos of Adolph Hitler's pre-World War II tactics are at the heart of Donald Trump's classified documents scandal, according to a new analysis by two top legal experts.
Harvard Law's Laurence Tribe, who has argued three-dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, penned the analysis with Dennis Aftergut, a fellow high court litigator.
"In the annals of successful political extortions, few rival the one that took place in Munich more than 80 years ago," Tribe and Aftergut wrote for The Bulwark. "On September 29, 1938, two days before a deadline that Hitler had announced for invading Czechoslovakia, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain yielded and agreed to meet with the German chancellor. In the Bavarian capital, they signed a 'nonaggression' pact that ceded the territory to Hitler without consulting the Czechs. Hitler successfully bargained for something that wasn’t his (a piece of a neighboring nation) by agreeing to yield something that didn’t belong to him (the territory of other neighboring nations, which he agreed not to invade)."
The pact was ignored by Germany when it invaded Poland, launching World War II.
"Former President Donald J. Trump is mimicking Munich by leveraging claims to things that aren’t his (America’s national secrets) against something which does not belong to him (the public order, which he threatens to overturn). On October 8, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt reported that in 2021, Trump sought to negotiate a deal with the National Archives by which he would return presidential documents (including some marked 'top secret') that he had spirited away to his beachfront resort at Mar-a-Lago," they wrote. "Neither the documents he had stashed at his resort nor those he sought from the Archives belong to him."
