Trump ally blasted on CNN for latest defense: 'People in his cabinet say he's a fascist!'
Marc Lotter, a former special assistant to former President Donald Trump, tried to brush off claims by multiple former high-level officials who said that the former president was a fascist.
After playing a video showing former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper saying that Trump has "fascist inclinations," Lotter tried to dismiss it as hyperbolic rhetoric of the same kind Republicans use when they label Vice President Kamala Harris a "socialist."
Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere, however, was quick to interject and point out that Trump wasn't being labeled a fascist by partisan Democrats in this instance.
"It's people who worked for Donald Trump," he said. "'Socialist' is something that Trump and Republicans have called Kamala Harris. Nobody who has worked for Kamala Harris calls her a socialist. People who were in Donald Trump's cabinet, in his Oval Office, say he is a fascist... [John Kelly] said that Trump wishes he had generals that were more like Hitler's generals."
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Lotter responded that he once worked inside the Trump White House and said that "I know many people in the White House who don't say those things," although it is completely unprecedented for any president's former officials to come out and publicly accuse their one-time bosses of fascism.
Lotter also criticized Kelly for coming out with his warnings about Trump just two weeks before the 2024 election, to which host Brianna Keilar replied that Kelly only decided to go public "because Donald Trump came out and said that the military should possibly be involved in dealing with American citizens."
Lotter tried to deflect from this by arguing that the National Guard has long been used to quell domestic unrest, which again prompted Keilar to interrupt.
"There is a distinction between the National Guard and the United States military," she said. "A very significant distinction. The National Guard.. the rules about whether they are allowed to operate on American soil are very different from the active duty United States military."
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