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Vice President Kamala Harris condemned former President Donald Trump over reports of him previously praising Adolf Hitler, per CNBC.
On Wednesday (October 23), Harris spoke at her residence in Washington D.C., addressing recent reports from interviews with Trump's former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who said the Republican nominee applauded the work of the Nazi leader while he was president.
“It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said in a statement.
“Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler,” she continued.
“Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution, he wants a military that is loyal to him.”
Harris' response came less than two weeks before the presidential election.
“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable,” the vice president said. “And in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there and no longer be there to rein him in.”
“So the bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power,” she added. “The question in 13 days will be, what do the American people want?”
In an interview with the New York Times, Kelly likened Trump to a fascist and said the former president would govern like a dictator if given a second term.
“He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government,” Kelly told the Times.
Kelly also noted in an interview for Jim Sciutto's book “The Return of Great Powers” that Trump previously told him, “Well, but Hitler did some good things.”
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