Russell Brand Endores Trump for President

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In a straight choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, if you care about democracy, if you care about freedom, I don't know how you could do anything other than vote for Donald Trump for precisely the reasons that they claim that you can't.

They act as if a vote for Donald Trump is almost like you're directly voting for Armageddon," he added, drawing attention to "hysterical performances outside of courtrooms" and "endless MSNBC bombast," but, "I'm starting to think that no, a greater threat to democracy is this kind of technological feudalism, that tells you that it cares about you and that it’s protecting vulnerable people, all the while increasing censorship, increasing the funding of wars, increasing the division between ordinary Americans."

Brand told Pipko that he'd long been "concerned about the snobbery and the contempt and condemnation in which people that support Donald Trump are plainly held by his detractors," arguing that the Biden administration has been, "plagiarizing from Donald Trump, while simultaneously criminalizing him from the weaponization of the legal system."

"The idea of this ... Orwellian nightmare continuing all the while they're telling you that they're helping you, is a far greater threat than their constant portrayal of Trump as a mad strongman figure, a kind of twenty-first century reiteration of the despotism of the last century," he warned. "For me, what we are facing now is a bigger threat than that."

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