Even though the two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump were likely the result of extremist rhetoric, especially that he was an “existential threat to democracy,” Vice President Kamala Harris irresponsibly compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler.
With no accomplishments to show Americans, Harris gave a speech first at the Naval Observatory, then about X, then again at last night's disastrous CNN town hall, and finally announced her He resorted to rhetoric that the party has condemned.
Harris slandered Trump after The Atlantic reported that Trump had said he wanted a general like Hitler, according to former chief of staff John Kelly. A retired Marine then told the New York Times that Trump would become a fascist dictator.
Instead of condemning the rhetoric, Harris continued further.
Speech and X Post
Harris claimed that President Trump said he wanted a general like Hitler “because he doesn't want a military that is loyal to the Constitution.”
He wants an army that is loyal to him. He wants an army that is personally loyal to him, an army that will follow his orders even if it means breaking the law or abandoning his oath to the U.S. Constitution.
Harris said Trump had “evoked” Hitler, which she said was “further proof to the American people that Donald Trump is the real person.”
Quoting Kelly, who told the Times that Trump “certainly fits the general definition of 'fascist,'” Harris said Trump “has sworn to be a dictator from day one, He vowed to use the military as a private militia to achieve his goals.” And political revenge. ”
Harris said, “Trump is becoming increasingly volatile and volatile,'' and that men like Kelly are “not likely to be there to serve as guardrails for Trump's proclivities and behavior.'' , concluded her deranged statement.
President Trump “wants unlimited power,” she said.
Regarding X, the following dangerous rhetoric ensued:
Donald Trump wants unchecked power. He wants an army loyal to him, like Adolf Hitler, not a constitution.
He is free and unstable, and even if given a second term, no one will stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.
Harris reiterated this claim to CNN's Anderson Cooper during a CNN town hall.
Mr. Trump replied:
Comrade Kamala Harris, seeing herself losing, and losing badly, after stealing the race from a particularly perverse Joe Biden, has now upped her rhetoric and calls me Adolf Hitler. and even calling other things that come to mind distorted. heart. She is a threat to democracy and unfit to be President of the United States – and her polls show it!
Elon Musk, a Trump supporter and CEO of X, called Harris' post a “serious incitement to violence.”
atlantic hits
In an article clearly timed to hurt Trump two weeks before the election, The Atlantic's Joe Goldberg wrote about Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's book on Trump, The Divider: Trump in the White House. I reused the story from “.
The book alleges that Trump asked Kelly, “Why can't you be more like a German general?”
“According to Mr. Baker and Mr. Glasser,” Mr. Goldberg reported, “Mr. Kelly explained to Mr. Trump that German generals had 'tried to kill Hitler three times and almost got away with it.' “I did,” he reported. The amendment did not cause President Trump to reconsider his position: “No, no, they were completely loyal to him,'' the president responded. ”
Mr. Goldberg continued:
This week, I asked Kelly about their interactions. He told me that when Mr. Trump brought up the topic of “German generals,” Mr. Kelly responded by asking, “You mean Bismarck's general?” “So I knew he didn't know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, 'You mean the Kaiser's generals?' You mean Hitler's generals. Isn't that so? And he said, “Yes, yes, Hitler's generals.” I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a conspiracy against Hitler. ” Mr. Kelly told me that Mr. Trump did not know Mr. Rommel.
Goldberg also reported that Trump, like Harris, knows nothing about military history and despises the military.
The author published a similar article attacking Mr. Trump in September 2020.
A hit piece by Ann Applebaum with similar timing and themes came out a few days ago. Headline: “Trump talks like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini”
Kelly, who later served as the first secretary of Homeland Security and then Trump's chief of staff, spoke to the Times.
A woman considered by many to be a communist – the prosecutor who promised to raid her home to find out who owned the gun and arrested her because her daughter skipped school while battling sickle cell anemia. — Kelly said, ignoring the presence. The wrong person was elected to high office. ”
Trump is a “fascist”
Kelly told the Times that Trump is a fascist.
“If you look at the definition of fascism, it is a far-right authoritarian and ultra-nationalist form of democracy characterized by autocratic leadership, centralized authoritarianism, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, and a belief in natural social hierarchies. “It's a political ideology and movement,” Kelly told the paper. .
“Certainly the former president is in the far-right spectrum, certainly an authoritarian, and certainly admires dictators. That's what he says,” Kelly continued. “Therefore, he certainly falls under the general definition of a fascist.”
Kelly also called Trump an aspiring “dictator.”
Given what Harris has said and done, perhaps Kelly lacks self-awareness.
On October 22, the same day Kerry's remarks were published in the Times, former President Barack Obama campaigned for Harris and again, without self-awareness, said the following: I uttered it. Toxic, very divisive, very bitter. ”
