New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives for a press conference at City Hall, in front of a painting of Alexander Hamilton, on June 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)
OAN Staff Blake Wolf 11:36 AM – Monday, October 27, 2024
Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended former President Donald Trump on Saturday, after Vice President Kamala Harris and others have amped up their divisive rhetoric, calling the former president a “fascist” similar to Adolf Hitler.
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“I have had those comments hurled at me by some political leaders in the city; my answer is ‘No,’” Adams stated, referencing the criticism Trump has received from Adams’s party.
“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,” Adams added.
NYC mayor Eric Adams says Trump isn’t a fascist, rebukes comparing him to Hitler, says Trump should be able to safely have his rally at Madison Square Garden, condemns overheated rhetoric of fascism. This is well said: pic.twitter.com/2ExCPKiIqi
The New York City Mayor, who is currently battling corruption charges, spoke on dialing the rhetoric down at a Manhattan news conference ahead of Trump’s Sunday Madison Square Garden rally, which Adams stated, required a “large police presence.”
“The American people deserve to have a president who encourages healthy debate, works across the aisle, not afraid of good ideas wherever they come from, but also maintains certain standards about how we think about the role and the responsibility, and certainly not comparing oneself in a clearly admiring way to Hitler,” Harris recently stated.
Additionally, Democrat Hillary Clinton recently characterized Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally as a reenactment of the Nazi rally held in MSG 85 years ago.
“Sadly, here in America, the term fits,” Clinton stated, referring to the fascist characterization of Trump. “And you know, one other thing that you’ll see next week, Kaitlin, is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.”
Hillary Clinton popped up just in time to call (over) half the country, N*zis.
She says President Donald Trump is going to Madison Square Garden in my city—New York City—to re-enact the 1939 Madison Square Garden N*zi rally.
The Trump campaign responded to Clinton’s assertion, calling her rhetoric “disgusting.”
“Hillary Clinton is so messed up from 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,” stated Trump’s National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“Putting aside her hypocrisy, Hillary’s rhetoric about half of the country is disgusting,” she continued.
Adams stated that he “strongly disagree[s]” with critics calling for the rally to be shut down.
“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,” Adams stated. “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.”
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