Miranda Devine
Opinion
The left puts a target on Donald Trump’s back with Nazi, Adolf Hitler smears
ByMiranda Devine
Published Oct. 23, 2024, 10:43 p.m. ET
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Donald Trump has been the target of at least two assassination attempts.
And yet the vice president, Kamala Harris, called an “emergency” press conference Wednesday to tell the world that he is the second coming of Adolf Hitler.
“Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution,” she said.
“He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.”
There is no way to sugarcoat the fact that Harris, in her desperation as her campaign heads down the toilet, has just invited more assassination attempts on her political rival.
She has green-lighted future efforts to murder him, with her carefully scripted, deliberately delivered official message from the official vice presidential residence in Washington, DC, using an American flag as her backdrop, just to add an obscene flourish.
Dems are so fearful, they’re now in the Trump-is-worse-than-Hitler stage as Election Day nears
Harris may as well have put a target on Trump’s back and called it a bull’s-eye like her boss, President Biden, did shortly before Trump escaped, by a fraction of an inch, being shot dead by an assassin’s bullet.
After all, any decent, reasonable person would try to assassinate Adolf Hitler if they had the opportunity to travel back in time and save 6 million Jews from genocide, and prevent World War II with its 15 million military casualties and 38 million civilian deaths.
That assassin would be hailed by history as a hero.
This is exactly the glory that Harris is offering fellow unhinged sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Tempting fate
Given the shockingly violent recent history of this election campaign, it is not hyperbole to say that Harris has incited violence against her political opponent.It is a logical, inevitable, predictable outcome of her carefully chosen words, and it will take uncharacteristic competence from the Secret Service, politically unhelpful caution from Trump, and God’s grace to keep him safe over the next two weeks.
In fact, people concerned about Trump’s well-being worry about the period until Inauguration Day because, if Trump were to win the election, and something were to happen to him, there is no guarantee that the unscrupulous, power-mad Democrats would allow his VP-elect, JD Vance, to take his place.
It’s a ghoulish thought but one that is top of mind for sanguine political operatives who understand the desperation of the Democrats and the deep-state cabal who covered up for Joe Biden and are propping up Harris.
To the cabal, Trump really is an existential threat — not to democracy or America, as we are frequently told, but to them and their control over the presidency.
It’s no coincidence that Harris’ pernicious press statement came soon after Biden said of Trump, “We’ve gotta lock him up,” thus blowing up all the elaborate lies he and Harris and the rest of their godforsaken administration have told about the politically motivated lawfare being conducted around the country against the former president and coordinated by the White House in numerous meetings and the seconding of DOJ attorneys to do the dirty work.
Calling Trump Hitler is Harris’ closing message of her benighted election campaign, a fitting capstone of almost four years of the deeply cynical and divisive reign of Biden-Harris.
She is a failure as a candidate for president just as she was the first time she tried, when she flopped so badly, she didn’t even make it to 2020.
It was supreme hubris to think she could somehow transform herself into a winner when she hasn’t even tried to improve herself or learn anything new in the four years since.
In her failure, she reaches for her campaign’s dirtiest tricks, using the same ring-around-the-bathtub deep-staters who sabotaged Trump’s presidency and denied him re-election in 2020 by lying that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, among other foul tactics.
Enter John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, who has been on a vengeful jihad against his former boss after being fired and disrespected by him.
Kelly, a former four-star general, was not a good fit for the Trump White House and, by his own telling, tried to sabotage the president.
He also once physically shoved first daughter Ivanka Trump, according to her husband Jared Kushner’s memoir.
Just as he did in 2020, Kelly is spewing unverifiable, personally motivated venom about Trump, which the New York Times and the Atlantic happily amplify two weeks before the election without even attempting a fact check.
