“I was thinking the other day about somebody had mentioned on the radio Adolf Hitler and how he aroused the crowds. And he would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just — they were hypnotized by him.
“That’s, I guess, I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational. We need somebody that is a doer, has been there and done it, so that it’s not a strange new world to him.
“I look around at the politicians that we’ve elected locally and I, I just can’t [unintelligible] on a federal level, I can’t get comfortable with the RINO-ism.
“And on a state level, we — our Republicans are sound asleep. They’re not an anti-government group. They don’t get up with new press releases to comment on this issue, comment on that issue.
“I mean, there should be a debate going on in the newspaper every day.” – US House candidate Carl Paladino, speaking last year to a Buffalo radio station.
Longtime JMG readers will recall that during his 2010 New York gubernatorial campaign, Paladino compared same-sex marriage to Nazism.
Yesterday Paladino admitted to spreading claims that recent mass shootings were false flags. He did so hours after denying it, claiming that he didn’t even know how to post to Facebook.
Paladino was Trump’s 2016 New York state campaign chairman and has been endorsed by Rep. Elise Stefanik.