‘Different Universes’: Tapper Marvels At Trump Wanting to Use ‘The Military to go After’ Dems While Harris Does Town Halls
CNN anchor Jake Tapper marveled at the difference between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump during post-town hall analysis on Wednesday night.
“What’s interesting about the moment we’re in right now is that we in the media are treating Vice President Harris like we treat a normal politician and we’re critiquing her answers and we’re talking about, well, she could have said this differently. She could have said that differently,” Tapper noted in a discussion about Harris’s town hall just minutes prior.
“Meanwhile, the Republican nominee literally is talking about liberals being the enemy within, talking about using the military to go after these people. His defenders say, no, he’s talking about going after illegal immigrants or he’s going after mobs in the street and Trump will say, ‘No, no, no. I mean, going after the Pelosis, going after Adam Schiff, going after Democrats.’ And these campaigns are in two different universes,” he concluded.
Kaitlan Collins added, “You know what is a great example of that, Jake? Is on that stage tonight, Vice President Harris called Trump a fascist, something she has not done before. Obviously, she’s only affirming what General Milley.”
“His chair, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” noted Tapper.
“That Trump handpicked to be the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General John Kelly, who was Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff. He had several of them, obviously had called him. That’s why she was asked that question by Anderson [Cooper]. And the former president was responding to what he just posted on social. And I think we have what he what he said. He’s saying that because of her polling that she’s warped and that she is calling him Adolf Hitler. Now, that is what he says. She’s increasingly raising her rhetoric,” continued Collins.
“She did not say that,” Tapper interjected.
“Now, I should note she did not call him Hitler. She said he’s a fascist. JD Vance did once likened him [to Hitler]. Right. Questioned whether or not he was America’s Hitler. But just to be clear, you know what she did say tonight. But it does show how Trump is taking what she said on stage tonight and claiming she said that it’s not what she said, but she is trying to drive that message home. And some people say they say, you know, actually immigration is a bigger deal. The economy is a bigger deal. I think she’s trying to remind voters about this because as I was noting earlier, you know, Betsy DeVos, one of Trump’s cabinet secretaries who resigned because of January 6th, is now a donor meetings with him. It shows just how short-lived people’s memories can be,” concluded Collins.
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