CNN Airs Montage of Trump Calling Opponents ‘Fascists’ After JD Vance Scolds Democrats for Saying Trump Is a ‘Fascist’

A montage aired on Tuesday’s CNN NewsNight reminded viewers of some of the overheated rhetoric that former President Donald Trump has used against his opponents.

Republicans in recent days have re-upped their attacks on Democrats for calling Trump “a threat to democracy” after he tried to overturn the 2020 election and inspired the 2021 Capitol riot. On Sunday, a would-be assassin was spotted with a rifle near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach. The Secret Service said the suspect did not “have line of sight” on the former president and did not fire his weapon. The incident came two months after Trump was shot in the ear by a registered Republican at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Officials said the gunman had searched for nearby locations where Trump and President Joe Biden were scheduled to appear.

Republicans have slammed Democrats for calling Trump a “threat” and have demanded they tone down their rhetoric. On Tuesday, CNN host Abby Phillip aired snippets of the ex-president going full bore against his political opponents.

But first, she aired a clip of Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) chiding Democrats.

“Look, we can disagree with one another,” he said on Monday. “We can debate one another. But we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he’s elected, it is gonna be the end of American democracy.”

Phillip noted one issue with Vance’s remarks.

“Except here is Vance’s actual running mate saying exactly that,” she said before playing snippets of Trump at various rallies:

It’s a choice between communism and freedom.

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This is communist, this is Marxist, this is fascist.

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There’s a radical left, Marxist, communist, fascist.

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She’s a Marxist. She’s a fascist.

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Comrade Kamala Harris.

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If comrade Kamala Harris gets four more years, you will be living [in] a full-blown banana republic ruled by an anarchy and a tyranny… They’re scum. They’re scum and they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.

On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump infamously told rally-goers in Washington, D.C. that if Congress certified Biden’s election victory that day, America as they knew would be over. While the former president did say to march to the Capitol “peacefully,” he also said, “And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” while telling the crowd, “You have to show strength.”

Watch above via CNN.

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