Trump se defiende días antes de las elecciones: ‘No soy un nazi’

Atlanta, Estados Unidos.- “I am not a Nazi,” Donald Trump stated on Monday as a rebuttal to accusations of being a “fascist” and the ambition to rule the United States in an authoritarian manner should he win the presidential election in eight days.

Personal attacks have become customary in the home stretch of the United States’ most closely contested elections in contemporary history.

Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris continues to warn that her opponent, former President Trump, represents a threat.

According to her, the current election is not like those of 2016 or 2020 because “there’s a lot at stake.”

Trump “is more unstable and unhinged, seeking unchecked power,” she remarked at a campaign event in Michigan (north), a state among the seven that could determine the electoral outcome along with Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada.

“And this time, there will be no one to stop him, not even the Supreme Court, which months ago informed the former president that he is essentially immune to whatever actions he undertakes in the White House,” she added, days after calling him a “fascist.”

Trump has labeled migrants as “murderers” and “terrorists,” claiming they “poison the country’s blood,” yet he denied aspirations to become an authoritarian leader similar to “Hitler.”

“The new line from Kamala (Harris) and her campaign is that anyone who doesn’t vote for her is a Nazi. We’re Nazis,” he asserted before an impassioned crowd in Atlanta.

Trump shared that his father always told him never to use the words Nazi or Hitler and criticized Democrats for employing both terms.

“They say he is Hitler and then they say he is a Nazi. I am not a Nazi; I am the opposite of a Nazi,” he declared in Georgia.

Recently, his former White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, told the New York Times that Trump fits the definition of a fascist and said that Adolf Hitler “also did some good things.”

Harris has given credence to Kelly’s statements, a former Marine Corps general, and has accused Trump of admiring “dictators.”

Since Sunday, a new controversy has ignited over racist comments made by some speakers at a Republican rally.

“There’s a floating island of trash in the middle of the ocean right now, I believe it’s called Puerto Rico,” comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said, who also mocked Latinos saying they “love making babies,” parodied Jews and Palestinians, and ridiculed a black man, reinforcing the stereotype that African Americans are fond of watermelon.

Trump’s campaign team distanced themselves from the comedian’s remark, prompting artists like Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, or Jennifer Lopez to support Harris.

“This joke does not reflect the President’s view,” stated one of Trump’s spokespeople.

César Viera, 18, attended Trump’s rally in Atlanta with an American flag draped over his shoulders.

He didn’t find the comments at Madison Square Garden offensive. “I’m Latino too, and I’m voting for Trump,” he told AFP, convinced that “he’s simply the best for the economy right now.”

Over 47 million Americans have voted early, including President Joe Biden, who did so this Monday in Delaware (northeast).

Tensions are mounting, fueled by fears that Trump might once again refuse to concede defeat as he did in 2020.

Concern grew after a fire burned hundreds of early ballots placed in a supposedly secure box in a highly competitive district in northwest Washington state.

Another was damaged hours earlier in Portland, Oregon, in a “deliberate act,” according to the police.

Tied in polls with Trump, Harris does not miss any opportunity to denounce the Republican’s rhetoric.

“He’s focused and truly obsessed with his grievances, with himself, and with dividing our country,” she stated on Monday.

On Tuesday, the 60-year-old former prosecutor will deliver what her campaign team calls a “final argument” against Trump in Washington, at the location where the former president rallied his supporters before they attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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