Donald Trump Is A Fascist, Kamala Harris Tells CNN Town Hall; VP’s Blunt Answer Follows Ex-POTUS Expressing Admiration For “Hitler’s Generals”

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“He’s just putting out a 911 call to the American people,” said Vice President Kamala Harris today at CNN’s live town hall of recent remarks by Donald Trump’s former chief of staff General John Kelly about the GOP candidate and his fitness to return to the White House.

The remarks by Harris follow Gen. Kelly confirming previous statements attributed to him that he believes the GOP candidate “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.” The interview by the former Homeland Security Secretary with the New York Times and the Atlantic also found Gen.

Kelly chillingly revealing that Trump repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and that he needed a military like “Hitler’s generals.” The VP came out earlier Wednesday to briefly address the four-star General’s remarks, calling Trump’s comments “deeply troubling.” Asked tonight by Anderson Cooper in Aston, Pennsylvania if she herself believed Trump is a fascist, the vice president said without hesitation: “Yes, I do.” As Election Day looms in 13 days, tonight’s town hall comes almost a week before the Harris campaign intends for the VP to deliver her closing argument on October 29 at the Ellipse in Washington DC next to the White House.

The site was the place where Donald Trump spoke to the crowd that then went to besiege the Capitol on January 6, 2021. After declining to do another debate on CNN, which would have been held tonight, Trump also rejected the network’s alternative: Back to back individual town halls with the candidates.