Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. compared Democrats’ potential defeat in the 2020 elections to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“I told the crowd at the Palm Beach GOP Christmas/Hanukkah party tonight that I predict the 2020 election will be Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the Dems!” Falwell tweeted Thursday.
“The impeachment by Democrats was their Pearl Harbor,” he added.
The impeachment by the Democrats was their Pearl Harbor. I told the crowd at the Palm Beach GOP Christmas/Hanukkah party tonight that I predict the 2020 election will be Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the Dems! @realDonaldTrump
— Jerry Falwell (@JerryFalwellJr) December 20, 2019
Jerry Falwell Jr., the 57-year-old son of the late televangelist and pastor Jerry Falwell, has been an ardent supporter of President Trump.
The United States dropped two nuclear bombs over Japanese cities on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, ending World War II. The bombings killed an estimated 260,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941, killed nearly 2,500 Americans and led to the U.S. entering the war.
President Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in 2016.
“Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky, and the world was changed,” Obama said in a speech at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
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