Mark Cuban says Donald Trump ‘absolutely’ has ‘fascist tendencies’

Billionaire businessman i Shark Tank investor Marek Kubańczyk the former president said on Sunday Donald Trump “absolutely” has “fascist tendencies” while: interview from ABC News.

“Donald Trump is not a normal candidate,” Cuban told ABC co-host Jonathan Karl This week“and I think calling Donald Trump a fascist is not an exaggeration.” Cuban, an independent MP, supported the vice president Kamala Harris and became a major surrogate for her campaign, although he claims to have made no donations to her.

The entrepreneur said Trump “is a threat” and added: “He talks about the enemy within and goes after people who use the military. He talked about mass deportations, during which they would stop people on the street and check their papers. What does this remind you of? Talking about knocking on doors, dragging people out and deporting them, what does that remind you of? That’s damn close to fascism, if not the definition of fascism.

Earlier this month, Trump called the “radical left” the “enemy within.”

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy within” – Trump he told Fox News. “We have some very bad people, some sick, radical leftist lunatics,” he continued. “It should be handled very easily, if necessary, by the National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military.”

During a town hall earlier this week, Harris he said that Trump is a fascist. She said he was “increasingly unstable and unfit for duty.” When asked if she thought he was a fascist, she replied: “Yes.”

Harris too he said during a televised speech that Trump wants a military that “will be personally loyal to him and will follow his orders, even if he tells them to break the law.”

Trump was reportedly interested in the concept of a military dictatorship towards the end of his presidency. “I need generals like Hitler had,” he said in a White House interview, according to two sources he said Atlantic.

The former president also said he wanted to be a dictator “for one day.” This month, he brought his audience a conversation with Fox News’ Sean Hannity at a campaign rally in Wisconsin. “I want to be a dictator just for one day and I will close the borders and I will conduct drills, drills for children. But then I never want to be a dictator,” he added he said.

Last year at a rally in New Hampshire, Trump he said that illegal immigrants “poison the blood of our country.” He later told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that he didn’t know Adolf Hitler had also said this idea. “I don’t know anything about Hitler,” he said. The alleged discovery did not cause him to back down from his rhetoric.

How Rolling Stone As reported in September, sources said they regularly described violent fantasies during his presidency. “Fuck, kill them all,” he used to say about gang members and drug lords. “An eye for an eye.” Officials privately talked about “Trump’s American death squad idea.”

Harris and Cuban are not the only ones expressing the impression that Trump is flirting with fascism. John Kelly, former Trump chief of staff, he said New York Times earlier this month, Trump fits “the general definition of fascism” and that he “certainly prefers a dictatorial approach to a government approach.”

“The former president certainly belongs to the far-right area, he is certainly authoritarian, he admires people who are dictators – that’s what he said. So he definitely fits the general definition of a fascist,” Kelly said.

During an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Karl played a clip of his friend Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, stating that the argument that Trump is a fascist is “an outdated trope that has already been drilled into the 45 percent of the country that hates him.”

Cuban admitted that the dispute has been going on for some time, but is still relevant: “You know, it’s not new. Is it somewhat concerning that half of America still supports him? Yes.”

Trump recently insulted Cuban on Truth Social. “Mark Cuban is a loser” – Trump he wrote. “When he was in the White House, he no longer answered his calls and he rebelled. A weak and pathetic “tyrant” with whom nothing happens. Really slow club head speed, total unathletic!”

Cuban called the criticism of his athleticism the “best part” of the post.