Russell Brand Tells Listeners to Vote for Trump ‘If You Care About Democracy’
Comedian Russell Brand claimed Donald Trump would do more to protect democracy and freedom than President Joe Biden.
During a Friday podcast Stay Free with Russell Brand, he interviewed Republican National Committee spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko and discussed the former president’s latest criminal conviction at a Manhattan courtroom for fabricating business records.
Brand, who describes himself as politically libertarian and anti-establishment, shared his thoughts on who should prevail in the upcoming November matchup. He claimed Trump would do more to protect democracy than Biden.
“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,” he told his listeners.
Following the 2020 election, Trump and his allies claimed that large-scale election fraud had illegitimately awarded Biden more votes in key swing states, including Arizona and Georgia. Trump’s speech at The Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, was followed by the Capitol riot where lawmakers were attempting to certify the election results.
Trump faces multiple criminal indictments for his handling of classified documents, but also for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In Georgia, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis is charging Trump with racketeering.
“They act as if a vote for Donald Trump is almost like you’re directly voting for Armageddon, like you see hysterical performances outside of courtrooms, endless MSNBC bombast,” Brand added. “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.”
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Russell Brand: “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.” pic.twitter.com/mBbkTXH8Wp
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Brand then bashed Trump detractors by blaming them for “the weaponization of the legal system.” He also criticized liberals for the “snobbery” and “contempt” held toward supporters of Trump.
“For a long time, Elizabeth, I’ve been concerned about the snobbery and the contempt and condemnation in which people that support Donald Trump are plainly held by his detractors,” Brand said. “And this is while you have an administration that’s emulating his policies, plagiarizing from Donald Trump, while simultaneously criminalizing him from the weaponization of the legal system.”
