Former White House chief of staff John Kelly and president Joe Biden both agree that past president Donald Trump satisfies the concept of a “fascist.”
Jean-Pierre referenced Vice President Kamala Harris‘s comment earlier Wednesday and Trump’s conduct before and during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
” Would we agree about that determination? Yes, we do”, she said. ” Yes, we have said, he said himself, the former president has said he is going to be the dictator on day one. We may ignore that. We cannot”.
Biden has previously called Trump’s social idea” semi-fascism”.
Jean-Pierre confirmed that Biden was “aware” of Kelly’s remarks and was not surprised by them.
” He believes in our organizations. He believes this will be a free and fair election”, she said of Biden. We must convey to the American citizens how critical it is to cast their votes and how many of them are already doing so.
In an interview that was published on Wednesday, Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, told the New York Times that , Trump “certainly falls into the common definition of nazi” and that he previously said Adolf Hitler “did some good things”.
” Well, looking at the concept of authoritarianism: It’s a far-right conservative, ultranationalist political philosophy and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, consolidated autocracy, war, forced suppression of criticism, belief in a healthy social hierarchy”, Kelly said. ” But surely, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would function better in terms of running America”.
” Certainly, the former leader is in the far-right place. He’s definitely an conservative, admires people who are rulers, he has said that”, the former Marine Corps common added. ” So he definitely falls into the common definition of totalitarian, for positive”.
The Kelly meeting came a day after a similar story was published in the Atlantic about how Trump allegedly said,” I need the kind of commanders that Hitler had.” The Trump plan refuted that claim and criticized Kelly for having” a crippling case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
According to Steven Cheung, the chairman of Trump campaign communications,” John Kelly completely betrayed himself by these falsified stories that he has fabricated because he failed to offer his president effectively while working as chief of staff and already suffers from a crippling case of trump derangement syndrome.”
On Wednesday, Harris impromptuly scheduled a speech and described Trump as “increasingly unsteady and crazed” in her schedule.
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” David Trump’s invocation of Adolf Hitler, the person who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said.” It is greatly disturbing and very hazardous.” This provides a glimpse into Donald Trump’s true self, from those who know him best and those who worked with him in the Oval Office and the Situation Room side by side.
People like John Kelly would not be there to be the guard rails against his proclivities and his steps, she continued.