Hillary Clinton's D-Day anniversary post sparks fierce backlash
A social media post made by Hillary Clinton to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day has been branded as 'sick and disgusting'. The Democrat , who ran against Donald Trump for the presidency in 2016, compared the fight against Nazi Germany to voting against Trump in November.
The former Secretary of State said in her post: ‘Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy. ‘This November, all we have to do is vote’, she said in the post to her X account, which has been widely criticized.
One user posted: ‘Just pure evil. Comparing the sacrifices of those who died to defeat Hitler and retake Europe to Democrats voting against Donald Trump. Sick and disgusting.’ While conservative political pundit Ben Shapiro said: 'What an enormously stupid and vile comment. Trump is not Hitler.
'And voting is not storming a beach under a hail of machine-gun fire to free millions from the tyranny of the Nazis.' Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said: 'These Dems couldn't be more dramatic and deranged.
'They're comparing storming the beaches of Normandy on #dday to voting against Trump,' 'How disrespectful to our WWII heroes who faced unimaginable fear with immense courage 80 years ago today,' Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in a post on X.
Combat veteran and author Sean Parnell did not hold back in his X post : 'Holy [expletive] I despise these people. It's impossible to capture just how loathsome a comment this is. 'To cheapen what WWII heroes did to BS garbage politics makes me sick. Again, WWII veterans deserve so much better than this.'
D-Day commemorates the day Allied forces launched a massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Normandy, France, as part of Operation Overlord which took place on June 6, 1944. Thousands of US and Allied paratroopers landed around Normandy Beach ahead of the largest armada of thousands of ships ever assembled carrying enormous numbers of Allied troops across the English Channel to fight Nazi control.
It would become the largest air, land and sea assault in history, the beginning of the end of Hitler's seize of Europe. Thousands of Americans and Allied troops died on D-Day and in the fighting that followed.
The successful invasion marked a major turning point in the war as it was the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
