Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman once again broke with many in his party to defend President Donald Trump against allegations that he’s an “autocrat” while ripping those who compare him to Adolph Hitler and other “outlandish” figures.
Fetterman’s defense of the president comes on the heels of the assassination last week of conservative influencer and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, whom the left has often referred to in similar terms.
“I — if you actually compare him to an actual autocrat, that is not — that is not just that,” Fetterman said in a discussion with CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju, who had suggested that Trump was autocratic.
“Now, last night, for example, people were complaining, you know, they’re protesting about, ‘Oh, that’s Hitler, Hitler.’ I think you just don’t ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler and those kinds of extreme things,” he continued.
“Now look what happened to Charlie Kirk. I mean, the man was shot. Now, we have to turn the temperature down. It’s like, we can’t compare people to these kinds of figures in history,” he said.
