Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told
The Tennessee Star on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris must apologize after she fanned the “flames of political violence” in her remarks, delivered earlier that day from the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., where she compared former President Donald Trump to genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler.
Ramaswamy described Harris’ speech as “insane” and “irresponsible” in a statement provided exclusively to
The Star.
“Comparing Trump to ‘Hitler’ is not only insane, it’s irresponsible given the near-tragedies we’ve seen in recent months,” said Ramaswamy, alluding to the multiple confirmed attempts to assassinate Trump.
Trump’s ear was grazed by an assassin’s bullet in a storm of gunfire that
killed Corey Comperatore on July 13, and weeks later he was rushed away from his Florida golf course after Ryan Routh was allegedly
waiting to assassinate the former president when authorities say a Secret Service agent saw the would-be killer’s rifle and opened fire. A third assassination attempt was claimed by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in California, but the man named in the accusation and his surrogates have
denied he sought to harm the former president.
The three attempts to assassinate the former president did not stop Harris from repeating
claims advanced by former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who was fired by Trump and later made negative claims about the former president to
multiple media outlets.
“He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders, even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States,” Harris claimed, citing Kelly’s recent
interview with
The New York Times.
Still citing claims made by Kelly, Harris later said, “Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the death of 6 million Jews.”
Ramaswamy told
The Star that Harris must apologize for the incendiary remarks.
“Our country is already skating on thin ice, we can’t afford to fan the flames of political violence just 13 days before an election,” said Ramaswamy.
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told The Tennessee Star on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris must apologize after she fanned the "flames of political violence" in her remarks, delivered earlier that day from the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., comparing...
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