Trump Campaign Responds After Kamala Harris Compares Trump to Hitler

With just 13 days to go before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris launched an extraordinary attack on Donald Trump, comparing him to Adolf Hitler in a brief, fiery press conference that has sent shockwaves through the political landscape. Instead of focusing on solutions to critical issues like the economy, healthcare, or national security, Harris opted to vilify Trump using an old, debunked narrative from The Atlantic in a desperate attempt to shift the conversation away from her own struggling campaign.

On Wednesday, Harris took to the podium for a three-minute press conference in which she repeated the baseless claim that Trump once praised Hitler. This claim, originally circulated in 2020 by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, is part of a broader narrative that accuses Trump of disrespecting U.S. military members. While the original story was quickly discredited, Harris resurrected the allegations in a last-ditch effort to tarnish Trump’s image as Election Day approaches.

The smear that Harris relied on alleges that Trump praised Hitler during a conversation with his former Chief of Staff, John Kelly, supposedly pointing out that Hitler “did some good things” for Germany’s economy. The implication was that Trump admired the Nazi dictator—an inflammatory claim that Trump’s allies have firmly rejected.

Trump’s campaign wasted no time firing back. A spokesperson for the Trump team called Harris’s comments “unhinged” and accused her of trying to distract voters from her failed policies and lackluster campaign performance. The campaign’s statement dismissed the Hitler accusation as “a recycled, debunked smear tactic that the far-left has been using for years.”

The comparison to Hitler stems from an article authored by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic in 2020. Goldberg’s article also claimed that Trump had insulted fallen U.S. soldiers, referring to them as “suckers” and “losers.” However, multiple sources, including people who were present during the alleged comments, have come forward to refute the article’s claims, calling it a politically motivated hit piece. Despite the lack of evidence, Harris has latched onto this narrative to try and score political points.

In her brief appearance before the press, Harris linked Trump to both Hitler and the 2020 murder of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén at Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos), a tragedy that shocked the nation. Guillén’s brutal death has been the subject of intense public scrutiny, and Harris’s decision to invoke the tragedy in an attack on Trump has been widely criticized as exploitative and tone-deaf.

Rather than addressing pressing concerns like inflation, rising crime rates, or immigration, Harris used her emergency press conference to launch personal attacks against Trump. For many, it was a clear indication that the Harris campaign is faltering under the weight of its own shortcomings, resorting to divisive rhetoric instead of offering meaningful solutions to the problems facing Americans today.

A Trump campaign insider, speaking off the record, said, “Kamala Harris is clearly desperate. She knows the American people are rejecting her and her failed policies, so she’s trying to distract from the real issues by smearing President Trump with recycled lies. It won’t work. Voters care about the economy, jobs, and safety—not these baseless attacks.”

Critics have noted that Harris’s approach in this press conference underscores a larger pattern in her campaign—using inflammatory rhetoric to steer attention away from policy failures. Her decision to compare Trump to Hitler comes at a time when the vice president’s approval ratings are plummeting, and her campaign is struggling to gain traction in critical battleground states.

In contrast, Trump has focused his campaign on core issues that resonate with voters, including border security, economic recovery, and putting “America First.” His campaign has highlighted his administration’s successes in creating jobs, lowering taxes, and boosting national security, while criticizing the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of inflation, the border crisis, and foreign policy challenges.

Trump himself has not shied away from responding to attacks like those from Harris. He has consistently framed such accusations as part of a broader attempt by the political left to smear his reputation and undermine his agenda. In previous statements, Trump has emphasized that these attacks are a distraction from the real problems facing the country, problems he believes the Biden-Harris administration has failed to address.

Kamala said:

“All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side by side in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room.

It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone who, I quote, “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist,” who, in fact, vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.

Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable. And in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to serve as guardrails against his propensities and his actions. Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there to rein him in.

So the bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be, what do the American people want?”

Steven Cheung, Trump Campaign Communications Director, was quick to fire back:

“Kamala Harris is a stone-cold loser who is increasingly desperate because she is flailing, and her campaign is in shambles. That is why she continues to peddle outright lies and falsehoods that are easily disproven. The fact is that Kamala’s dangerous rhetoric is directly to blame for the multiple assassination attempts against President Trump and she continues to stoke the flames of violence all in the name of politics. She is despicable and her grotesque behavior proves she is wholly unfit for office.”

This is what the Democrats have become: a party more interested in character assassinations than addressing the needs of everyday Americans.

As the election nears, the political temperature continues to rise, with both sides using increasingly aggressive tactics. However, Trump’s supporters see Harris’s latest attack as a sign of desperation, a Hail Mary attempt to shift the narrative as her campaign flounders.

For many Americans, the 2024 election hinges on critical issues such as economic recovery, healthcare reform, and national security. Whether Harris’s inflammatory rhetoric will resonate with voters remains to be seen, but for Trump’s base, the comparison to Hitler is just another example of the far-left’s relentless smear campaign against the former president.