Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks before leaving the Vice President’s residence on October 23, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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Vice President Kamala Harris cursed Donald Trump On Wednesday, he reportedly praised adolf hitler and say republican presidential candidate “Want unlimited power.”
Harris democracy The nominee spoke from his residence in Washington, D.C., a day after reports that Trump’s former White House chief of staff recently gave an interview John Kellywho recounted Trump’s comments about Nazi leaders while he was president.
“Donald Trump’s invocation of Adolf Hitler, who was responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans, is deeply disturbing and extremely dangerous,” Harris said.
“Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, retired four-star general John Kelly, confirmed that during Donald Trump’s presidency, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler,” she said.
“Donald Trump says that because he doesn’t want a military that’s loyal to the Constitution of the United States, he wants a military that’s loyal to him.”
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on at a campaign rally at the site of the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 2024.
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Harris’ statement came less than two weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election, which she noted in her warning to Trump. Millions of Americans have already gone to the polls in states that allow early voting.
“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable,” Harris said.
“In a second term, people like John Kelly will not be the guardrails around his tendencies and behaviors. Those who once tried to prevent him from pursuing his worst impulses will no longer be there, and will no longer be there to control him. behavior.
“So the bottom line is: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power,” she said. “The question 13 days from now will be, what do the American people want?”
CNBC has asked a Trump campaign spokesperson for comment.
Kelly, who served as Trump’s homeland security secretary before becoming White House chief of staff, told reporters new york times Trump meets the definition of a fascist, and if elected for a second term, will govern like a dictator if left unchecked.
“He certainly prefers a dictator’s way of government,” Kelly told The Times.
Kelly also said in an interview for Jim Sciutto’s book “The Return of the Great Powers” that Trump once told him, “Okay, but Hitler did some good things.”
