Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump on Wednesday for his alleged praise Adolf Hitlerand said the Republican presidential candidate “wants unchecked power.”
Harris, the Democratic nominee, spoke at her residence in Washington, DC, a day after reports of recent interviews with Trump's former White House chief of staff John Kellywhich echoed Trump's comments in regards to the Nazi leader during his time as president.
“It is deeply disturbing and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said.
“Yesterday we learned that Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while he was president, Donald Trump said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler,” she said.
“Donald Trump said that because he didn’t want a military loyal to the Constitution of the United States, he wanted a military loyal to him.”
Harris' statement got here lower than two weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election, which she acknowledged by issuing a warning about Trump. Millions of Americans have already forged their votes in states that allow early voting.
“Donald Trump has become increasingly unhinged and unstable,” Harris said.
“And in a second term, people like John Kelly would no longer be there to fend off his tendencies and actions. Those who once tried to stop him from acting on his worst impulses would no longer be there and would no longer be there to contain him.
“So the bottom line is: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants uncontrolled power. In 13 days the question will be: What do the American people want,” she said.
Kelly, who served as Trump's homeland security secretary before becoming White House chief of staff, recounted The New York Times that Trump met the definition of a fascist and that if elected to a second term he would rule like a dictator if not restrained.
“He certainly prefers the dictatorial approach to government,” Kelly told The Times.
Kelly also said in an interview for the Jim Sciutto book “Return of the Great Powers” that Trump told him, “Well, but Hitler did some good things.”
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