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An essay by a longtime confidant and operative of Bill and Hillary Clinton compared former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric during his 2024 campaign to Nazi-era language echoing Hitler’s belief in racial hierarchy and purity. A Monday piece published by The Guardian, titled “Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake,” draws parallels between Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the ideology of Nazi Germany. The article, authored by Sidney Blumenthal, who served as senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and is known for his underhanded political tactics, attacked Trump’s terminology when discussing immigration and national security, comparing it to...

Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Monday on CNN’s “OutFront” that former President Donald Trump is willing to prosecute and jail Americans for disagreeing with him. Host Erin Burnett said, “He is though laying senator the groundwork to claim election fraud if he loses in November, I just want to make sure people know that because if you weren’t listening all weekend, you might have missed that. What he said. He said that the only thing that stands between him and victory in this election is widespread fraud and cheating. Here’s what he said.” At a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump...

Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that former President Donald Trump “has a problem reading and probably various learning disabilities.” Guest host Alex Marquardt said, “Speaking of that interview that our colleague Dana Bash did with Kamala Harris yesterday, Trump has responded. He called Harris low-energy but he said not too much about the substance of the interview. What does that tell you?” Scaramucci said, “He’s a perception guy. He’s a very aesthetic person because you know, he has a problem reading and probably various learning disabilities so he’s working off the aesthetics...

On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen predicted that President Joe Biden’s tariffs won’t cause any meaningful price increases for typical families and responded to a question on her criticism of the Trump tariffs as “taxes on consumers” by stating that Biden’s tariffs are different because they’re “are a targeted group of strategic sectors where we have developed a real overdependence on China.” Yellen said that with the Biden tariff regime, “I don’t think that anything will occur here that would be noticeable to the typical American family. Mainly, these tariff increases serve to protect firms and workers that...