By james art Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has linked former President Trump’s upcoming rally at Madison Square Garden in New York to the infamous Nazi rally that took place at the arena in 1939.
“Another thing you’re going to see next week, Caitlan, is that Trump is actually recreating the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939. I write about that in my book,” Clinton told CNN’s Caitlan Collins on Thursday night. “President Franklin D. Roosevelt was horrified that the neo-Nazis, the fascists in America were lining up to pledge their support for the government they saw in Germany. So I don’t think we can ignore it.”
“Now that might be a leap for some people, and a lot of others might think, ‘I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to say that.’ But please open your eyes to the danger this man poses to our country, because I think it’s clear and available to anyone who’s paying attention,” Clinton continued.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused former President Trump of “reenacting” the infamous Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden during an interview with CNN. (Screenshot/CNN)
Earlier, Clinton told Collins that she agreed with both Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump’s former chief of staff, General John Kelly, who both called Trump a “fascist.”
But the 2016 Democratic nominee hesitated to say whether that line of attack would resonate with the voters Harris needs to win over before Election Day.
“I think that’s a fair question, Caitlan. And I can’t fully answer,” Clinton said. “But I think number one, you have an obligation when you run for president. You know, I tried to raise the alarm about him in 2016, but it was a really tough climb because people literally couldn’t imagine that he posed a danger or that his character was so lacking when it came to the responsibility of being president , so I totally understand that, but now there’s too much evidence of what he wants to do, what he says he wants to do first, I think somebody who’s running for president, like Vice President Harris, really has an obligation to alarm.”
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Former President Trump is set to hold a major rally at the iconic Madison Square Garden in liberal New York. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
“And secondly, I think there are people who are still paying attention, you know, maybe they’re, you know, leaning one way or the other and hearing John Kelly or hearing General Milley or hearing President Obama or Vice President Harris and it makes them really think, ‘Why would we take that risk?'” she said.
“Sometimes in politics you have to do what is not only right but also important. And it’s important to make the case as best we can before this election what kind of person this is and what kind of president he promises to be,” she added.
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Vice President Kamala Harris said she agreed with General John Kelly that former President Trump was a “fascist.” (AP/Matt Rourke)
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Kelly, who has been an outspoken critic of the former president since leaving the Trump administration, told The New York Times that Trump fits the “general definition of a fascist.”
Asked Wednesday at a CNN town hall if she agreed with Kelly’s conclusion, Harris said, “Yes, I do.”
Fox News’ Alexander Hall contributed to this report.