Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hitting back at Democrats who compared former President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden to a Nazi rally.
"There was so much joy in the room and optimism and patriotism and idealism about our country and it was the opposite of Nazism," Kennedy said in an interview Tuesday. "The need to use that most invocative, and explosive, and incendiary, and poisonous reference and it's being used across the top ranks of the party, it's Hillary Clinton, it's Kamala, I think it's really, it's bad for our country."
Kennedy, a member of the famous political dynasty, originally ran for president as a Democrat before deciding to run as an independent and later dropped out, endorsing Trump. He criticized comparisons of Trump to Hitler as dangerous, noting people have theorized on whether they would go back and kill Hitler when he was a child.
"So, when you compare an American political figure to Hitler, who is about to become president, the kind of people who are, you know, who are already a little unstable, you're really suggesting to them that this man should be killed before he gets into office," Kennedy said.
The rally came under fire after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said Puerto Rico was a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean."
The Trump campaign has distanced itself from Hinchcliffe's comments.
Kennedy said people groaned in the crowd.
"No one was laughing," he said.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate compared the rally to one held by the American Nazi Party at Madison Square Garden in 1939 that had a crowd of 20,000 supporters.