Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday reacted to the claims made by Donald Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly in an NYT interview that Trump is fascist and said people like John Kelly won’t be there in a second term. Quoting from the interview where Joh Kelly said Donald Trump fits the dictionary definition of a fascist, Kamala Harris said, “Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and actions.”
“Those who one tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there, and no longer be there to rein him in”.
“It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said Wednesday just now outside her official residence at the Naval Observatory in northwest Washington DC.
“All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is,” she claimed.
“In just the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within, and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens,” Harris said Wednesday, “and let’s be clear about who he considers to be 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 non-partisan election officials.
“We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be, what do the American people want?”
John Kelly in his NYT interview said Donald Trump used to admire Adolf Hitler and if if elected again, he would govern like a dictator and he does not understand the Constitution or the rule of law. Kelly said Trump had spoken admiringly of Adolf Hitler and disparaged American military personnel who were disabled or who lost their lives.
Kelly told NYT that he chose to denounce Trump just two weeks before the election because of the comments Trump repeatedly made about harnessing the power of the executive branch, including the military if necessary, to eliminate the
‘enemy from within”.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said, “John Kelly has totally beclowned himself with these debunked stories he has fabricated because he failed to serve his President well while working as Chief of Staff and currently suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
