John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist. Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff (…) He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law. He discussed and confirmed previous reports that Mr. Trump had made admiring statements about Hitler, had expressed contempt for disabled veterans and had characterized those who died on the battlefield for the United States as “losers” and “suckers” — comments first reported in 2020 by The Atlantic.
via ny times: As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator
siehe auch: “Increasingly unhinged and unstable”: Harris blasts Trump for alleged Hitler praise. Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Trump “increasingly unhinged and unstable” on Wednesday, warning voters two weeks before the election of his desire for “unchecked power.” Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Trump “increasingly unhinged and unstable” on Wednesday, warning voters two weeks before the election of his desire for “unchecked power.” The big picture: Harris’ comments come after the New York Times published a report a day earlier with John Kelly’s allegation that the former president on multiple occasions praised Adolf Hitler and said the Nazi leader “did some good things.” Kelly, Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, also raised concerns that Trump would rule like a dictator if elected next month and said he believes the GOP presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist. What she’s saying: “This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best,” Harris said at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., in response to Kelly’s comments. She called it “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler.” She also addressed Trump’s recent comments labeling political opponents as the “enemy from within.” “Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to criticize him would qualify in his mind as the enemy within, like judges, like journalists, like nonpartisan election officials,” she said; ‘Trump is descending into this madness’: In Racine, Walz decries Trump’s reported Hitler remarks. In a Wisconsin campaign stop, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz slammed former President Donald Trump over published reports that the Republican presidential nominee had spoken admiringly during his term in office of Adolf Hitler and his generals. “As a 24-year veteran of the military, that makes me sick as hell, and it should make you sick,” Walz said to the crowd at Memorial Hall in Racine on Tuesday night. “The guardrails are gone. Trump is descending into this madness.” The Minnesota governor made the remarks during the second of two stops in Wisconsin and after an earlier rally in Madison with former President Barack Obama. With less than two weeks left in the presidential race, polling shows a narrow race between Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
