{"id":33871,"date":"2024-10-24T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33871"},"modified":"2024-10-31T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:24:35","slug":"harris-says-trump-is-a-fascist-in-cnn-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33871","title":{"rendered":"Harris Says Trump Is A Fascist In CNN Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vice President Kamala Harris said she believes former President Donald Trump is a fascist Wednesday in a town hall with CNN\u2014heightening her criticism after Trump\u2019s former chief of staff said Trump has praised<\/a> Adolf Hitler and wants a military that is loyal to him<\/a> above the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris answered \u201cyes I do\u201d when CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked her if she believes Trump is a fascist, after Harris opened the town hall by referencing former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly\u2019s allegations that Trump fits the definition of a fascist in a series of interviews with The New York Times<\/a> published Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris also quoted Kelly from her Washington, D.C., residence earlier Wednesday<\/a> while rebuking Trump over the reported comments, calling them \u201cdeeply troubling and incredibly dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She expanded on her criticism in the town hall, repeating her allegations that Trump is \u201cincreasingly unstable\u201d and \u201cunfit to serve,\u201d while referring to various former Trump Administration officials who have since turned on the president, including Kelly, who she said is \u201cputting out a 911 call to the American people\u201d to \u201cunderstand what could happen if Donald Trump is back in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referencing allegations Kelly made last year and again in The Times interview that Trump referred to dead and wounded veterans as \u201closers and suckers,\u201d Harris said during the town hall Trump \u201cdemeans people who have taken an oath to sacrifice their life for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also reminded voters that Trump said in 2022 he believes parts of the Constitution should be terminated over his baseless claims of \u201cmassive fraud\u201d in the 2020 election, declaring \u201cno one standing behind the seal of the President of the United States of America should be in that position saying they want to terminate the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contra<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Trump campaign blasted Kelly in response to the Times interview, accusing him of having \u201cbeclowned himself with these debunked stories he has fabricated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tangent<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trump refused to participate in the CNN town hall and rejected Harris\u2019 proposal for a second debate. The town hall comes 13 days before the election as Harris and Trump are virtually tied in polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Background<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kelly told The New York Times Trump thinks \u201cfascism would work better in terms of running America\u201d and that Trump told him \u201cmore than once\u201d that \u201cHitler did some good things, too.\u201d Kelly said he agreed to the interviews after Trump suggested earlier this month in an interview with Fox News the military should be deployed to handle his political adversaries. Harris has repeatedly seized on Trump\u2019s comments from the Fox interview calling his detractors \u201cthe enemy from within.\u201d<\/a> She warned earlier Wednesday in remarks from her residence that Kelly and others who \u201conce tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there and no longer be there to rein him in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Critic<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trump lashed out at Harris in a post on his Truth Social platform, saying<\/a>: \u201cHarris sees that she is losing…so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind. She is a Threat to Democracy, and not fit to be President of the United States \u2014 And her Polling so indicates!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

forbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vice President Kamala Harris said she believes former President Donald Trump is a fascist Wednesday in a town hall with CNN\u2014heightening her criticism after Trump\u2019s former chief of staff said Trump has praised Adolf Hitler and wants a military that is loyal to him above the Constitution. Harris answered \u201cyes I do\u201d when CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8150,26699,2302,9164,1230],"class_list":["post-33871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-city-hall","tag-fascists","tag-harris","tag-meetings","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33873,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions\/33873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}