Former first lady Melania Trump has pushed back against the Democrat talking point linking her husband, former President Donald Trump, to fascist dictator Adolf Hitler.
"He's not Hitler, and all of his supporters, [they're] standing behind him because they want [to] see [the] country successful, and we see how — what kind of support he has," the former first lady said in an interview on "Fox & Friends."
Since the real estate mogul first ran for president in 2015, many of his political and media opponents have tried to link Trump to the genocidal, mass-murdering Hitler. On Sunday, left-leaning news outlet MSNBC combined clips of the Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden with images from a 1939 Nazi event at the famed New York City arena.
Also on Sunday, the Democratic National Committee projected digital images of alleged past Trump statements outside MSG. "Trump praised Hitler," was one of the five projections referring to a recent statement by Trump's former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly. Last week, The Atlantic published an interview where Kelly claimed Trump had positive things to say about Hitler.
"He loves his country, and he wants to make it successful and to — for all of the people," Melania Trump said in her Fox News appearance. "You know, he — he loves people, and he wants to make this country great again."
The Harris campaigned seized on Kelly's comments to try and convince voters that Trump is a threat to democracy. Speaking at a campaign stop in Wisconsin, Gov. Tim Walz said, "Folks, the guardrails are gone. Trump is descending into this madness — a former president of the United States and the candidate for president of the United States says he wants generals like Adolf Hitler had."
Trump and his campaign have also pushed back against the charges citing his father as one who taught him never to draw any comparison to Hitler. "You know, years ago, my father — I had a great father, tough guy — he used to always say, 'Never use the word Nazi. Never use that word.' And he'd say, 'Never use the word Hitler. Don't use that word,' " the former president said.
"And yet they use that word freely. Both words. They say, 'He's Hitler,' and then they say, 'He's a Nazi,' " he continued. "I'm not a Nazi. I'm the opposite of a Nazi."
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