Mayor Adams refutes Kamala Harris, says Trump is not a fascist as he urges Dems to 'dial down the temperature'
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Via: vic-eldred • 4 weeks ago • 73 commentsBy: Tina Moore (New York Post)
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Mayor Adams defended Donald Trump Saturday, slamming claims from Democrats that the Republican nominee is a "fascist" who could be compared to Adolf Hitler.
"I have had those comments hurled at me by some political leaders in the city; my answer is 'No,' " said an embattled Adams, when asked about the criticism of Trump.
"I know what Hitler has done, and I know what a fascist regime looks like. I think, as I have called for over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all dial down the temperature," added Adams, a moderate Dem currently facing federal corruption charges.
Adams made the remarks while speaking at a Manhattan news conference outlining what he called "large police presence" being planned for Trump's Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and President Biden began hammering Trump this week after claims emerged that the former commander-in-chief had praised Hitler while in the Oval Office.
The allegation surfaced in The Atlantic and was later confirmed by retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, Trump's one time White House chief of staff.
"I invite you to listen and go online to listen to John Kelly … who has told us Donald Trump said, why — essentially, 'Why aren't my generals like those of Hitler's, like Hitler,'" the vice president told voters Wednesday during a CNN town hall broadcast to millions of viewers.
"This is a serious, serious issue. And we know who he is. He admires dictators," she went on.
At the start of the event with voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania, Harris also said "yes" when directly asked whether Trump was a "fascist."
Harris' campaign this week put out more than a dozen press releases further harping on the claims Kelly made about his private conversations with Trump — including one in which the then-chief executive remarked that "Hitler did some good things" by having "rebuilt the [Germany] economy."
Trump has repeatedly denied ever asking anything positive about Hitler and accused The Atlantic of being "a failing magazine."
Harris surrogates are also using the Sunday's MSG event to smear Trump for attempting to "re-enact" a Nazi rally held there 85 years ago.
"Trump [is] actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939," said failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on CNN's "The Source" Thursday night.
However, Adams said he "strongly disagree[s]" with anyone saying the rally should be scrapped.
"This is America. This is New York, and I think it's important that we allow individuals to exercise their right to get their message clear to New Yorkers," he said. "And our job as a city and as a Police Department is to make sure they can do that in a peaceful, in a peaceful way."
The NYPD said it plans to designate areas around The Garden for protestors but warned it won't tolerate any criminal activity.
"You will see a … heavy uniform presence around The Garden," Chief of Patrol John Chell said.
"We'll see heavy weapons teams, counter terrorism, aviation, …, blocker vehicles. We are the best at what we do. We prepare for protests every day. We will have a very safe day tomorrow for all New Yorkers."
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It needs to end before somebody is assassinated.
Trump has called Harris a Communist and a Fascist every day for weeks, often more than once a day. Now he's added "the enemy within". Obviously you would agree that Trump's inflammatory rhetoric could lead to his opponent being assassinated, and needs to stop.
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Comment 1.1.1 is a fucking joke.
The phrase "a fucking joke" is reactionary.
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[✘] I dont see any more reason to discuss this election with these people.
How anyone on this earth could believe Trump is any sort of victim boggles the mind.
We should all be tired of the constant insults to the intelligence that happen here, and Perrie is free to kick me out any time she wants. It would probably be preferable to listening to any more of this shit here.
The phrase "a fucking joke" is a description of something pathetic and has no political connotation. I'm surprised I needed to explain that.
Yes, he needs to stop inciting another coup like he did before. Insane that Adams is asking Dems. to dial down the temperature when it is the former 'president' traitor and maga are the ones who dialed it up and continue to inflame in the first place..
Trump is absolutely a fascist nazi. Only a fool can't see that.
Is that what the Harris campaign is down to?
That and staging events with performers who don't perform. I guess that is why the Washington Post won't endorse her.
Or the LA Times.
Two of the biggest left wing rags in the country.
That tells you something.
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And the Teamsters Union.
It tells me that certain organizations on the left are embarrassed to endorse her.
No, they don't want to alienate the would be dictator for daring to endorse Kamala. They've all become spineless weasels in fear of the traitor.
How about some ACTUAL examples of him being a "fascist nazi"
Not a cut and paste of someone else's words.
Not your emotional feelings.
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How about some ACTUAL examples of him being a "fascist
A few examples:
He said he will be a dictator if re-elected.
He said the Constitution should be terminated.
He said he wants to use the U.S. military against American citizens.
He constantly expresses admiration for murderous dictators like Putin, Xi and Kim Jung Un.
He exhibits a “manipulative type” of authoritarian personality.
He engages in self-deification such as when he proclaims "I alone can fix it", and refuses to recognize any information proving him wrong.
There are many more examples if you wish to pursue it further. You can even research it on your own time and you will discover much more.
Why did you quote me from @4.1.3 and then speak about fascists?
Did you make a copy/paste error or is this another attempted subtle taunt?
You did not ask me to define fascism but it is not difficult to carve out the general scope.
Common defining characteristics for fascism are:
Trump clearly hits characteristics 1 and 4. His "enemies within" insanity hits characteristic 2. His intent to abuse tariffs touches characteristic 3, but for the most part, Trump only claims to be able to control the economy (obvious bullshit) but has made no real moves to try to do so.
But what should be alarming to any responsible individual is that Trump's longest running chief of staff, ★★★★ General John Kelly et. al. ( ) uncharacteristically has made it known that in his considered opinion Trump is unfit for office and is an authoritarian and likely even qualifies as a fascist.
When do you see so many top members of a political party weigh in on the character, ethics, principles, etc. of a PotUS?
But Trump supporters blindly ignore all these historically outrageous factors and stick with trying to elect a loose-cannon, vindictive, narcissist traitor to the presidency.
Adams is working for help from Trump with his legal problems. President Harris would not interfere but a president Trump might for one of his supporters.
Oh, is that what it is?
Did you read that somewhere or is that a guess?
It is a hypothesis.
No waiting for the facts to come on that one, huh?
A hypothesis is an educated guess based on evidence.
The very thing you have denied me all too often.
A blueanon theory
Cut the victim crap. If you want to state a hypothesis then do so. I will then evaluate your evidence and logic. If you, on the other hand, make a claim then I will expect you to at least put forth a persuasive argument based on sound evidence (if not fact).
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How, exactly, is it wishful? Why would I be wishing that Adams is trying to get into Trump's good graces?
More bullshit from you.
It is easier to say Adam's would be saying trump is not a fascist because he is getting something out of it than saying Adam's just doesn't buy into the hysteria.
It is reasonable conjecture that Adams is coming to Trump's defense because he believes it will help him personally.
There is nothing hysterical about the sober assessment made by ★★★★ General John Kelly (Trump's longest standing Chief of Staff), and many other high ranking, connected Republicans and military officers (typically generals) who worked with/for Trump.
Have you ever observed (or read about historically) a presidential election where so many high-ranking members of the nominee's party have expressed dire warnings that their nominee is unfit?
To just dismiss that as hysteria is an example of confirmation bias.
All I would say is who cares what Eric Adams thinks? He is an indicted criminal.
But you always say you're dealing in facts and truth when it is usually opinion.
There is always a reason as to why someone would deny obvious, demonstrable evidence that Trump is unfit ... especially if one is a D.
As this election comes near the end, I am more sure than ever that the media in this country has let us down. I think the history books are going to find that to be one of the big themes of the Trump era.
Eric Adams is not a big or key national figure, outside of NYC he is , in fact, a nobody. Why should anyone care what his thoughts on John Kelly or the "fascism " talk are?
I agree. The media has treated Trump as though he were a normal candidate. The public should be outraged but the lack of harsh, critical reporting on Trump lets them go on thinking that this is just another race with Trump being merely eccentric.
Is Adam's a Trump supporter?
Trump has been chumming up with Adams claiming they are both victims. Adams is not giving Harris any campaign support. Nor is Adams saying anything negative about Trump.
I think he has calculated that his most likely support from the next PotUS is if that office is occupied by Trump. And as long as he steers clear of helping Harris and saying anything bad about Trump, he would likely be on the Trump side in Trump's binary mind.
Contradicting Harris and defending Trump is a fine step in getting on Trump's good side.
We need the context of that.
A link would help the discussion.
You cannot find links like this on your own? This is current news and comes up right away on searches.
Always the victim.
You have google [✘] use it.
You don't think they were?
Stop believing Trump claims.
The mayor has some real troubles and it isn’t being re elected it is criminal charges, I guess one crook (possible) looking for help from another.
Ain’t America great.
It was once.
Yes, indeed and when did you think it was great? Why isn’t it still a great country, well there is the lunatic Trump being president and running once again, that certainly dragged the US down to a third world country, a shit hole as Trump states.
I'm glad you asked. I was talking to a woman from Panama the other day. We met at a sporting event that we took our grandkids to participate in. I told her about a time in our history when only one person needed to work to support an entire family, and a house was something most young couples had hopes of purchasing. I told her back then you and I wouldn't be doing all this running around in our 70's.
Why isn’t it still a great country,
Our leaders made bad trade deals and sold out our workers.
How, specifically, is Trump (in your mind) going to get our nation back to the 1950s? What level of socio-economic/political magic do you think this guy is capable of?
Nobody can ever do that, but he has initiated fair trade deals and even Joe Biden has kept some of those tariffs in effect.
What level of socio-economic/political magic do you think this guy is capable of?
At the very least I expect what he did in his first term: incentivizing American energy production, tariffs to protect American unions & workers and trying to keep taxes low.
There were more than one time only one person working and there are also times when it was very difficult for people to purchase a home. And there were times when homes didn’t have indoor plumbing or electrics, why in the world would you want to give up the advances in tech/home building/etc and go back to what ever year your talking about?
’’Our leaders made bad trade deals and sold out our workers’’.
Well selling out our workers is an age old tradition in the US. Remember the Robber Barons? The trade deals that everyone complains about are they really that bad? We are the 2nd largest exporter in the world. Without trade you would not be enjoying the standard of living you are now.
There is quite a bit of spin there. Why wouldn't I want to live in a time when one person's salary could support a family. Have we not regressed in that sense?
And there were times when homes didn’t have indoor plumbing or electrics, why in the world would you want to give up the advances in tech/home building/etc and go back to what ever year your talking about?
That is not the reason homes became unaffordable. The home I was born in had all of those things and cost about $5,000 right after WWII. Today that house is listed on Zillow for $750,000. The reason for the high prices is the US government got involved with mortgages, lending and interest rates.
Well selling out our workers is an age old tradition in the US. Remember the Robber Barons? The trade deals that everyone complains about are they really that bad? We are the 2nd largest exporter in the world. Without trade you would not be enjoying the standard of living you are now.
You mean Laissez-faire economics? We moved away from that when we had labor unions. We cannot simply let countries with slave labor undermine our workers. We lost our manufacturing sector because of it.
You could say we have regressed in that but at the same time advanced in a multitude of other ways. It is wishful thinking to what to live in the 50s and ignore everything else that took place in the 50s, good and bad.
Yes, the house cost $5,000 and the lot cost $500, carpenters were less than a dollar an hour, plumbers the same, lumber costs at 5% of what they are today and 15 years before they were $5,000 the same house was $2500. If we as a country stood still in time we would not be one of the greatest countries on earth.
I do not mean laissez-faire economics. The US workers has always been sold out and that is why we have unions which now are close to non existent so workers are back to the same old crap.
Remember when the US had only three auto manufactures, Chevy, Ford and Chrysler. They produced shit cars at high prices because there was no competition. Once the Japanese came into market and VW thing started to change because the US public demanded it. When you are the only deal in town or have a lock on the market the consumer suffers, the auto industry is the greatest example as to why we need trade and competition.
I don't know why some folks want to go back to the 1950s, I mean I do, but they want to take it back way further than that.....
It is irrational IMO. I think anyone wanting the 1950s remembers only the good and ignores all the bad. Plus I suspect those who seek the 1950s have a romanticized view that does not correlate with reality.
What an odd leap. Negotiating trade deals and 1950s socio-economics are not the same.
They must not have had any real 'bad' to deal with or struggles unlike others.
It's still the best economy in the world, bar none.
Correct, the USA's life expectancy in 1950 was about 12 years less than it is now.
And the USA life expectancy now is about 6 years behind the leading countries today.
Why do you think that is?
Environmental? Educational? Better access to health insurance?
Women working instead of your proverbial, barefoot and pregnant?
no.
Wrong, part inflation and part greed.
Gotta ask vic, what have you ever actually done for this country? What have you sacrificed? You seem to be the definition of "all talk".
Superstar singer Beyonce, who was born in Houston, fired up the crowd by introducing Harris, who came on stage to a recording of Beyonce's song "Freedom," which has made her campaign anthem. She did not sing however.
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That must have been disappointing for those who came.
So what if she didn't sing?
Boy is the former 'president' jealous of the endorsement!!!!!! You can tell by the way he said 'Beyonce' when he said 'Joe is asleep, and 'Beyonce' .......just like the whiny little jealous little shit that he is.
I was disappointed that in all the hours they were waiting, they didn't broadcast Willie Nelson playing solo.
They also didn't broadcast hours of other candidates talking and "endorsing" Harris.
A packed, enthusiastic crowd that didn't have to wait 3 hours in the cold for the candidate to show up.
I'd say it was a success.
Meh, the only more disappointing thing is seeing Trump wander cluielessly out onto a stage 40 mins late to start ranting about the 1910s.
I am sure quite a few came for nothing more than to see and hear her..............bait and switch. Made the crowd bigger. The plan worked.
I'd say that is a reasonable conclusion.
I take comfort in knowing that there's only ten more days until this election is finished. But considering the shitshow this election has been, I'm worried with what these two parties will come up with next for nominations.
Agreed.
It's been this way since social media exploded and you have the opportunity to make it a shitshow by sharing with your fellow, mostly anonymous citizens.
Depends on who wins and how much greed can be reversed by reversing some really bad SCOTUS decisions starting with "Citizens United".
Resign you corrupt fuck.
Trump’s own generals have called him a fascist. He calls Harris a fascist every time he talks about her - also communist and Marxist. He is the king of name-calling.
Republicans have no grounds for complaining about any name calling that flows Trump’s direction. Not only did they nominate the national schoolyard bully and name caller supreme, they go around accusing liberals of hating America and grooming kids for sexual exploitation. So just fuck right off.