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presidential election briefing: Trump fits the ‘definition of fascist’, says
former chief of staff John Kelly
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Wed 23 Oct
2024 00.18 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/us-presidential-election-trump-harris-updates
Two weeks
out from election day, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff has claimed his
one-time boss “falls into the general definition of fascist”.
John Kelly,
a former Marine general and presidential aide from 2017 to 2019, made the
extraordinary intervention on Tuesday in a series of coordinated interviews.
Speaking to the New York Times, he said the former Republican president
“prefers the dictator approach to government” and is the “only president that
has all but rejected what America is all about”. Steven Cheung, a spokesman for
Trump’s campaign, told the Times that Kelly’s accounts were “debunked stories”
and that Kelly had “beclowned” himself.
Speaking to
the Atlantic, Kelly recounted Trump saying he wished his military personnel
showed him the same deference Nazi generals showed Adolf Hitler. Trump’s
campaign denied the exchange, with an adviser telling CNN: “This is absolutely
false. President Trump never said this.”
Democratic
vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz said the reported comments about Hitler’s
generals “makes me sick as hell”. “Folks, the guardrails are gone,” Walz told a
rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday. “Trump is descending into this madness.”
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