Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld on Sunday defended his recent holocaust analogy in criticizing Donald Trump’s plan to deport undocumented immigrants from the U.S. If elected as president.
Weld, who was named as the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate by Gary Johnson on Thursday, told The New York Times that Trump’s plan to remove the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants from the U.S. reminded him of “Kristallnacht.”
“I can hear the glass crunching on Kristallnacht in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vienna when I hear (Trump’s plan), honest,” Weld told the
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