Is Trump a ‘fascist’? What it means and why some say yes as U.S. election nears
Global News
A growing number of former Trump administration officials and advisors are calling Trump a fascist, which U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris said she agrees with. What does it mean?
A growing number of former administration officials and advisors to Donald Trump are calling the former U.S. president a “fascist,” pointing in particular to recent comments he has made about “the enemy from within.”
When asked during a CNN town hall last week if she thinks Trump is a fascist, U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris replied, “Yes I do.” Later, she brought it up herself, saying Trump would, if elected again, be “a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”
Harris was responding to explosive comments made by Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly to the New York Times, who asked him if he believes Trump is a fascist.
“Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that,” Kelly replied. “So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”
In his interview with the New York Times and another with The Atlantic, Kelly said Trump’s comments about “the enemy from within” and the military handling “radical left lunatics” inspired him to speak out.
Trump called Kelly a “lowlife” and a “bad general” on Truth Social in response to the New York Times interview. Trump’s running mate JD Vance and Republican supporters including Sen. Lindsey Graham have also pushed back, with Vance suggesting Kelly was a “disgruntled ex-employee” and Graham claiming Kelly’s comments were made out of “desperation.”
The top Republicans in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, invoked the two assassination attempts against Trump this year in a joint statement Friday that called Harris “reckless.”
“Labeling a political opponent as a ‘fascist,’ risks inviting yet another would-be assassin to try robbing voters of their choice before Election Day,” Johnson and McConnell said.
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