JB Pritzker says Trump admin is like Third Reich and will deploy troops to intimidate voters

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker equated actions taken by the current Trump administration to the "early days of the Nazi regime," and claimed that the National Guard would be deployed in 2026 at polling places for midterm elections.

In one interview, Pritzker was asked about his February budget address, in which he spoke "about Nazi Germany dismantling a constitutional republic. Did you raise that because you fear that’s what’s going to happen in America?" the interviewer asked.

"I raised it because what we’re talking about is authoritarianism. We could have talked about Pol Pot. We could have talked about authoritarians across history. I chose something I know very well, I helped to build a Holocaust museum."

He continued, "And what I know is in the early days of the Nazi regime, they started slowly but surely taking away people’s rights, and what we’re seeing now is the very same thing. They’ve gone into cities now with the military. Think about that, in your lifetime, have you ever seen anything like that where the President of the United States is sending military or troops dressed as military, ICE and CBP in camouflage with automatic weapons into our major cities?" 

The White House’s Rapid Response account on social media criticized Pritzker for calling "President Trump a Nazi — fomenting more deranged violence from his Radical Left lunatic supporters. Pritkzer is one SICK scumbag."

Pritzker said that it’s "wrong," and accused Trump of "causing the mayhem on the ground."

In an interview with Rachel Maddow, Pritzker claimed that the deployment of the National Guard has been done for the "broader goal" of the "militarization of major American cities before the 2026 elections. 

He said, "And next year, I fear that what they’re going to do is deploy these folks eventually to polling places and say they’re protecting the vote. Donald Trump knows that without shenanigans and without these breaches of the Constitution, that he’s going to lose the Congress, and if he loses, he’s going to immediately, in the aftermath of the election, do what he said he might do in 2020 which is use the military to confiscate the ballot boxes and count the votes claiming that there’s fraud."

Illinois has been designated by leadership as a santuary city which means that local law enforcement is prohibited from working with federal law enforcement. Recently, federal law enforcement was attacked in Broadview, Ill. and local law enforcement told their officers to stand down.