A heavily debunked Atlantic hit piece gave Kamala Harris the pretext to justify political violence against former President Donald Trump in a Wednesday afternoon address from the vice president’s official residence in Washington, D.C.
Harris, without an iota of evidence, told the American people that if Trump were to become president again, he would create a dictatorial, Adolf Hitler-esque regime. That exact rhetoric is part of a larger pattern of priming Democrat voters for violent resistance to another Trump presidency. It has been most recently fueled by an Atlantic hit piece that relied on unnamed sources and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, well known for his disdain of Trump, to smear the former president of being a “fascist” and wishing for the kind of generals Hitler had.
“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. “All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side by side in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room.”
Kelly’s allegations about the Hitler comments came, conveniently, five-and-a-half years after they allegedly occurred and just two weeks before a presidential election. To put it bluntly, Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., said, “John Kelly is full of sh-t, and I have the receipts.”
