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A commentator served up a reality check for his pearl-clutching CNN panelist peers lamenting alleged Hitler remarks after more than a year of prominent Hamas sympathy on parade.

“Those are the Hitlers I’m worried about.”



(Video: CNN)

Surprising no one, the left’s closing pitch against former President Donald Trump included demonization through ramped-up rhetoric that the GOP leader was not only akin to Adolf Hitler but had complimented him as well.

Such were the claims from the former president’s onetime chief of staff John Kelly that found CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings encouraging his colleagues to “open your eyes” to what had been happening around the country, particularly since the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel.

“I would just humbly submit to Mr. Kelly that if he’s worried about Hitler and he’s worried about fascism, he ought to pick up the newspaper,” he said during a discussion on the former administration official referring to Trump as a fascist who wants to be a “dictator on day one.”

“There’s thousands of Hitlers running around this country right now, running around college campuses, running around New York City, chasing Jewish people around, blocking their access on college campuses,” continued Jennings. “If you’re worried about Hitler and you’re talking about Donald Trump, maybe open your eyes and take in what’s happening on the American left in this country. Those are the Hitlers I’m worried about.”

The Atlantic had reported that former chief of staff John Kelly told CNN’s Jim Sciutto in an interview for the book “The Return of Great Powers” that Trump had allegedly said among other remarks, “Well, but Hitler did some good things.”

In response to Jennings’s take, former South Carolina state Rep. Bakari Sellers (D) had tried to disregard the take as over the line for comparing the Hamas sympathizers on campuses to Hitler and pivoted to sell a scenario on how Republicans would react if someone close to Vice President Kamala Harris had made allegations similar to Kelly about her.

Meanwhile, Jennings had also bucked the timing of the reporting as Harris had delivered remarks about the “fascist” claims to insist “Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable.”

The commentator suggested to the panel, “But I think, like everything else with Donald Trump, opinions vary whether you’re coming out of the military or the private sector, or government or anything else. And I agree that two weeks before an election will cause some people to look at this in a jaundiced way. Like, you know, ‘You’re trying to drop this here at the end,’ and there will be people who don’t believe it. There will be people who refute it. And Donald Trump himself also refutes it.”

Following the report, Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung stated, “John Kelly has totally beclowned himself with these debunked stories he has fabricated because he failed to serve his President while working as Chief of Staff and currently suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

“President Trump has always honored the service and sacrifice of all of our military men and women,” he went on, “whereas Kamala Harris has completely disrespected the families of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, including the Abbey Gate 13.”

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