The hateful, violence-inciting rhetoric coming out daily from the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign and their desperate surrogates like Hillary Clinton—calling Trump a “fascist” and a Nazi-lover—has become too much for even New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams.
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He broke with his party Saturday and said it’s simply gone too far. “My answer is no,” he said when asked if the GOP nominee is a fascist.
Mr. Adams, mayor of America’s largest city and one of the country’s most prominent Black elected officials, was briefing reporters about security plans ahead of Mr. Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden when he was asked if he believed the former president was a fascist.
“I have had those terms hurled at me by some political leaders in the city, using terms like Hitler and fascist,” said Mr. Adams, a former police officer. “My answer is no. 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 [emphasis mine].”
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The embattled mayor was indicted on corruption charges in September and is facing his own challenges. Many pundits noted, however, that the government came after him only after he’d criticized the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris disaster at the border.
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Trump knew they’d come after Adams long in advance:
As we’ve reported extensively, Harris has dropped her campaign of “joy” and replaced it with a campaign of hate:
“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.”
Also as we’ve reported, the woman who won’t go away—the odious Hillary Clinton—is inciting emotions by saying that Trump’s plans to hold a rally at NYC’s Madison Square Garden “is Trump actually reenacting the [Nazi] Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.” The Trump campaign quickly pointed out that her “raging 8-year-long case of anti-Trump derangement syndrome that she forgot SHE did an event at Madison Square Garden when she was a Senator, and her husband Bill accepted the Democrat nomination there.”
This disgusting rhetoric was too much for Adams, and he vowed that the rally will proceed as it should:
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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.”
Adams may or may not be guilty of the charges against him; that story is for another day. What he said Saturday, nevertheless, rings true: This is America. Kamala and Co. seem to have forgotten that, or more likely, they don’t care about such niceties in their desperate attempts to cling to power.