Democratic presidential contender Tom Steyer compared his mission to impeach President Trump to his father’s experience of prosecuting Nazis at Nuremberg.
While speaking to a crowd of Iowa voters before Monday’s caucuses, the corporate billionaire reflected on his Jewish father’s experience as a lawyer who prosecuted Nazis at the Nuremberg trials. Steyer, 62, claims his father warned his brothers and him about the need to act in the face of an injustice similar to that in Nazi Germany.
“If you see something wrong in the country, make sure you fight it, as fast and as hard as you can. Because they didn’t do that in Germany and something happened there that was almost unimaginable,” Steyer said his father once instructed him.
“That was the reason I started the need to impeach movement. Over two years ago, I thought there’s something terribly wrong at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” he affirmed. Steyer than notes how he started a petition to impeach the president, which he claims earned over 8 million signatures.
Steyer is currently polling at 3% support in the Iowa caucuses, according to RealClearPolitics data. He, along with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, 59, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 38, will be canvassing voters for multiple days on end.
The Democratic presidential candidate is also embarking on a “Beat Trump” bus tour until the caucuses begin on Feb. 3.
