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🗓️ 31 October 2024
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This month, more than a dozen former Trump staffers went on the record to say that everyone should heed the warning that Donald Trump is a fascist and would rule as a dictator.
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0:00.0 | This is on point, I'm Magnitokrobardi. |
0:03.0 | General John Kelly enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1970. |
0:08.0 | Over as many decades as a Marine, he served in Europe, Iraq, and in leadership positions in the Pentagon. |
0:15.6 | From 2017 to 2019, General Kelly was White House Chief of Staff for then President |
0:21.4 | Donald Trump. |
0:23.2 | Kelly has spoken occasionally about how challenging it was to work with Trump, but he has never |
0:28.1 | spoken so sharply or clearly as he recently did with the New York Times, |
0:33.7 | when he said, in his opinion, |
0:36.1 | Donald Trump meets the definition of a fascist. |
0:39.9 | Looking at the definition of fascism, |
0:46.1 | it's a far right authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a |
0:50.2 | doctoral leader, centralized hypocrisy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy. |
1:00.0 | So, certainly... So certainly in my experience, those are the times things that he thinks |
1:10.0 | would work better in terms of running America. |
1:14.0 | He certainly an authoritarian admires people who are dictators. |
1:20.0 | He has said that. |
1:21.0 | So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist for sure. |
1:28.1 | Kelly's words were released by the New York Times just days after Bob Woodward revealed that former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general Mark Millie called Trump quote the most dangerous person ever. |
1:41.4 | I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental |
1:44.3 | decline and so forth, Millie told Woodward, quote, but now I realize he's a total |
1:49.9 | fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country." |
1:54.0 | End quote. |
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