Republican candidate for the White House Donald Trump is “increasingly disturbed and unstable” and in search of “absolute power”, said Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in the race for the presidency, on Wednesday, October 23. American presidential election on November 5, duringa short speech at the Washington Naval Observatory.
“It is deeply disturbing and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler,” she added, referring to comments made by John Kelly, former chief of staff for the Republican at the White House between 2017 and 2019. According to this latest, the ex-president reportedly said the Nazi dictator had “done good things,” and said in a series of interviews published Tuesday that the former president fit “the general definition of fascist,” as reported notably the American daily newspaper New York Times.
For the vice-president, who did not mince her words during this speech added to her agenda at the last minute before leaving for Pennsylvania, “all this is further proof for the American people of who really is Donald Trump.” “In a second term, people like John Kelly would no longer be there to be guardrails against his actions,” added Kamala Harris.
Trump’s campaign team, neck and neck with its rival less than two weeks before the election, denied to the press the comments made to the former president by John Kelly.
Now “we know what Donald Trump wants: he wants absolute power. The question in 13 days will be what the American people want,” concluded Kamala Harris, recalling that the Republican billionaire promised to attack “the enemies from within. And this definition applies to “anyone who dares to criticize him”, according to the vice-president.
Since the start of their respective campaigns, the two candidates have gone blow for blow. At a meeting in Pennsylvania last Saturday, Donald Trump addressed Kamala Harris by declaring: “You are a shitty vice president, the worst, you’re fired, get out of here.” He also called her “a loser who has less energy than a rabbit” last week.