Tom Steyer says Nuremberg trials inspired him to push for Trump impeachment

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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.

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