In her CNN town hall Thursday evening, Vice President Kamala Harris said that she believes former President Donald Trump is a fascist.
Moderator Anderson Cooper posed the question to Harris, who responded, “Yes I do. Yes I do.”
“And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted,” Harris added. “Again, look at their careers, these are not people, I think with the exception of only Mike Pence, these are not politicians. These are career people who have served at the highest roles of national security. Who have served as generals in our military. Who are highly respected, talking about the person who will be commander in chief.”
Harris’ statement comes after former Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, the longest-serving chief of staff in the Trump administration, told the New York Times in an interview that Trump is “certainly an authoritarian” and “admires people who are dictators.”
Kelly also told the Times that while in office, Trump would also “occasionally” say that Adolf Hitler “did some good things, too.”
“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,'” Kelly said Trump told him. “And of course, if you know history, again I think he’s lacking in that. If you know what history was all about, it would be pretty hard to make an argument that he did anything good.”
Of Kelly, Harris said that “he’s just putting out a 911 call to the American people to understand what could happen if Donald Trump were back in the White House.”