RFK Jr. compared Trump to Hitler and praised descriptions of his supporters as 'Nazis'

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, has a long history of scathing critiques against Trump, labeling him a “threat to democracy,” a “bully,” and, as recently as July, a “terrible president.”

But Kennedy’s harshest attacks date back to Trump’s rise in 2016, when on his radio show “Ring of Fire,” Kennedy applauded descriptions of Trump’s base as “belligerent idiots” and suggestions that some were “outright Nazis” and “spineless fellow travelers.” Kennedy also likened Trump to historical demagogues like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, accusing Trump of exploiting societal insecurities and xenophobia to amass power.

After Trump won in 2016, Kennedy concluded in one episode from December of that year that Trump was at least in one way not like Hitler, because, “Hitler was interested in policy.”

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Kennedy repeatedly accused Trump of exploiting fear, bigotry and xenophobia to build a “dangerous” nationalist movement and warned Trump would destroy both the climate and clean water. Kennedy also compared Trump’s supporters to white Americans in the 1970s who, he said, viewed the Civil Rights Movement as a “social demotion.”

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/kfile-rfk-jr-trump-critique/index.html

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Kennedy is now blaming the media for misleading people about Trump.

[SomedayKindaLove]

1. Comparing Trump to Hitler

Got Vance a promotion too.

[diane in sf]

3. Maybe tRump thinks being compared to Hitler is flattery, lol.

[LudwigPastorius]

2. As far as Bob's opinion of Trump goes,...

I guess the worm has turned.

[progressoid]

4. Who cares?

76 million voters didn't

[mdbl]

5. Another spineless moron

took lessons from Moscow Mitch and Lindsay G.

[Strelnikov_]

6. Wow Ring of Fire is still around

Listened in the Air Amer days. Sounds like RFKjr was run off the show during Covid as his anti vax rhetoric became problematic.

[sakabatou]

7. Kennedy is trying to have it both ways

[tanyev]

8. How the brain worm turns, hey Bobby?

[Escape]

9. Trump's Magnificent Fools...

Almost everyone in the upcoming Trump administration knows he is a liar, a Fascist and an idiot. There must be something in their bizarre alliance with him that mentally and politically stable people--like us--just don't understand.

Their pathetic fealty to him is astonishing and embarrassing. Most of them will have their careers and lives destroyed. He will use them, abuse them, blame them for his failures and take credit for any success they might create.

They are magnificent fools.

Trump's Magnificent Fools.

[raccoon]

10. I bet RFK Sr. is turning over in his grave.