”Brooks, a five-term Republican, accused Democrats and members of the media of propagating a “big lie” about collusion. A spokesman for the congressman didn’t return a query from The Washington Post inviting him to elaborate on his analysis. With a flourish at the climax of his argument, Brooks declared that the words came from “socialist Adolf Hitler, in his book, ‘Mein Kampf. '”Indeed they did, and the vilification of Jews as treasonous was central not only to Hitler’s worldview but to the Nazi war machine. ”Brooks, an attorney, held office at the state and local level before he rose to the national stage in 2010.

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2019 09:55 UTC