'Strange psyche': George Conway says Trump's 'big lie' is right out of Hitler's playbook

Conservative attorney and Donald Trump critic George Conway said Friday the former president's repeated false claims about Hurricane Helene relief are taken straight from Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's playbook.

Conway detailed to MSNBC's Alex Wagner his take on Trump's false claims that President Joe Biden had been unreachable, flushed Federal Emergency Management Agency funds into migrant shelters and withheld aid from Republican-favoring areas.

"You're a student of Trump's strange psyche," said Wagner. "What does the clearly confessional nature of these accusations tell you about, I don't know, where his head is at right now?"

Wagner was likely referencing recent reporting that Trump pondered withholding relief funds from a wildfire-plagued California in 2018 until he discovered conservative voters also lived in the ravaged state.

"Well, you know, you're absolutely right," said Conway. "It's a form of projection. He attributes to others motives that he himself has. But it's more than that."

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Ultimately, said Conway argued Trump was using a tactic straight from the Nazi dictator.

"The words that came to mind when i read about this controversy today is the 'große Lüge," Conway said. "It means the big lie. It was made up by Hitler for a propaganda technique, by which you tell as big a lie as possible so that people will believe bigger lies. They will believe bigger lies more than they believe smaller lies. Because they simply think it's impossible for anybody to have the ability to tell such a big lie. But Trump does that. He's a pathological liar. His lies about the supposedly stolen election in 2020 were große Lüge."

'This is why he's a cancer on the American political life that must be removed once and for all," Conway said.

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