Kamala Harris’ Hitler-Focused Closing Argument Is A Shameful Stain On Her Party 

Democrats are the party of mass censorship, the weaponization of the CIA, FBI, and DHS, and the politicization of everything. What does that sound like to you? 

 

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Trump is a fascist who sells out America, says Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a new advertisement released yesterday. “John Kelly, a four star Marine general, has told us Trump said, ‘Why aren't my generals like those of Hitler's?’” Harris says over images that look like a Republican is holding up a Nazi salute to Trump. “He admires dictators.” 

The ad comes on heels of what was ostensibly a new revelation of what Trump said to Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, in a major piece called, “TRUMP: ‘I NEED THE KIND OF GENERALS THAT HITLER HAD,” by The Atlantic magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. 

But Goldberg’s revelation wasn’t new. On August 8, 2022, the Washington Post published a story headlined, “Trump wanted ‘totally loyal’ generals like Hitler’s, new book says.” Journalist Amy Wang wrote a near-identical article to the one that Goldberg wrote. 

“President Donald Trump once told a top adviser that he wanted ‘totally loyal’ generals like the ones who had served Adolf Hitler,” reported Wang, “unaware that some of Hitler’s generals had tried to assassinate the Nazi leader several times, according to a new book about the Trump presidency.” 

Both the Goldberg story and the two-year-old Wang piece were based on claims made by Kelly and Kelly alone. Nobody else has verified them. And the Kelly claims received abundant coverage when the book Wang referred to, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by the New York Times’ Peter Baker and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, was published in 2023. 

As such, the Atlantic article was the first of a coordinated pivot by the Harris campaign back to making “Trump = Hitler” her closing argument to the American people. 

On Tuesday, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR and hundreds of other news media around the world reported on Kelly’s claim as though it were new. 

On Wednesday, Harris gave a supposedly “surprise speech,” saying, “It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best.” 

Also on Wednesday Harris repeatedly denounced Trump as a fascist and Hitler-like in a Town Hall with CNN. Then yesterday, Harris launched two new ads highlighting Kelly’s claim that Trump is a wanna-be Hitler. 

Laurene Powell Jobs both owns The Atlantic and is a major donor to the Harris campaign. "It's clear that if we want to change the narrative,” she said at a 2018 Atlantic event, “we have to change the narrator," referring to Trump. 

The Atlantic has become the publication of choice for Democrats and Intelligence Community (IC) intermediaries and an ostensibly “former” CIA employee to demand mass censorship. 

Goldberg’s article in the Atlantic also quoted Trump calling a slain Mexican-American solider a “f— Mexican,” after having previously offered to pay for her funeral, in an Oval Office meeting. 

But Goldberg did not name a single source in his article, while all named individuals in the room at the time deny that Trump ever said such a thing. 

“The Atlantic hit piece is a lie,” said the translator of the meeting with the soldier’s parents. “President Trump had zero interest in the cameras. He met with the Guillén family privately for twenty minutes and offered the press gaggle solely if it would assist them in honoring Army Specialist Guillén and raising awareness about her case.” 

Guillén’s attorney Natalie Khawam said, “After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story.” 

There are other red flags in Goldberg’s story. He told CNN that Trump calling Guillén a “f— Mexican” is something that “tracks with everything that we know about the way he speaks,” but he did not say this in his article and offers no evidence to support his claim that those two words are uniquely Trumpian.

Goldberg’s claim that someone in the Oval Office meeting wrote down that Trump had called Guillén a “f— Mexican” stretches credulity. Why would someone have done such a thing and in front of so many people crowded in the Oval Office? Were they worried they wouldn’t remember that Trump had said such an outrageous thing?

And there is evidence that Goldberg deliberately misrepresented the meeting. Ben Williamson, the spokesman for Meadows, said he told The Atlantic that Trump “absolutely did not say that” but the Atlantic claimed Meadows said he “didn’t hear Trump say it.” Williamson shared his text message to the Atlantic as proof of his claim.

When CNN confronted Goldberg with what Meadows said, he said, “We've seen this pattern again and again and again. They deny, deny, deny, and then it comes out as true.” Goldberg then cited as an example another one of his claims: that Trump had called slain soldiers “suckers and losers.” But no independent evidence has ever come out that Trump said such a thing.

Public sent a direct message and email on Tuesday, asking Goldberg about these discrepancies and challenges to his reporting; he did not respond.

It is not obvious why Harris is pivoting back to attacking Trump as a fascist and would-be Hitler. After all, the Democrats and the media shifted away from the Hitler-fascism message after the public started to turn against the lawfare against Trump, after the Butler assassination attempt, and after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris. If the Hitler-fascist framing has lost much of its power, why is the Harris campaign returning to it now?

 

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GUSNOTE: MICHAEL, THE ONLY REASON THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN IS TRYING HARD TO PAINT TRUMP AS HITLER IS BECAUSE KAMALA HAS NO POLICY IN HER SHOPPING BAG.... NOTHING. NOT EVEN ROTTEN BANANAS....

 

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