SkyBlueFlux
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Much has been written about not only Trump’s similarity to Jones, but about the way he naturally speaks and interacts with others being exactly like a cult leader.
In fact, a bonafide Jonestown survivor, who was shot five times and left for dead (she was an aid to Rep. Leo Ryan, who was murdered there in that same shooting, before Jones ordered his entire congregation to commit suicide), and later became a congresswoman, has said in no uncertain terms that Trump and Jones should be rightly compared.
Congresswoman Shot At Jonestown Compares Donald Trump To Cult Leader Jim Jones
"The only difference between Jim Jones and Donald Trump is the fact that we now have social media. So all these people can find themselves in ways that they couldn’t find themselves before.”www.forbes.com
People who were in Jonestown have said similar things. This from Yulunda Williams who fled from the cult a year before the massacre:
“I sometimes listen to [Trump] - he sounds so much [like him] and the rhetoric is so similar to that of Jim Jones," Ms Williams said. "But it is absolutely eerie for me.”
When I made that post I hadn’t really thought to look up whether others had made a similar connection. In a way it’s not necessarily surprising as Trump has probably been compared to every mendacious leader in human history. But there was something about the mannerisms and way of speaking that I found really uncanny.