ASTON, Pennsylvania (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that she believes that Donald Trump is a fascist after his longest-serving chief of staff said the former president praised Adolf Hitler while in office and put personal loyalty above the Constitution. Harris seized on comments by former chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, about his former boss in interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic published Tuesday warning that the Republican nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office he suggested that the Nazi leader “did some good things.” The Democratic presidential nominee said Kelly's comments, less than two weeks before voters will decide whether to send Trump back to the Oval Office, were a “911 call to the American people” by the former chief of staff.
Speaking at a CNN town hall, Harris said they offer a window into who the former president “really is" and the kind of commander in chief he would be. When asked if she believed that Trump is a fascist, Harris replied twice, “Yes, I do." She added that if reelected, Trump would no longer be tempered by people who would “restrain him” from his worst impulses.
Earlier Wednesday, Harris repeated her increasingly dire warnings about Trump’s mental fitness and his intentions for the presidency. “This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who have worked with him side by side in t.