Emmer of the Republican Party avoids a simple question about Trump, Hitler’s generals

Retired Gen. Mark Milley helped get the ball rolling. The public learned two weeks ago that Donald Trump had recently been selected as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared in the protocol that he now believes the Republican nominee is “deeply fascist” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”

A week later, retired Gen. John Kelly, who was Trump’s White House chief of staff, also said that Trump meets the “definition of ‘fascist’.” Similar comments from Mark Esper, Trump’s former defense secretary, soon followed. who admitted “it’s hard to say” that Trump doesn’t deserve to be called a “fascist.”

Apparently most of the American public thinks the same way: the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 49% of the country views the former Republican president as a fascist.

CNN’s Kate Bolduan asked House Majority Whip Tom Emmer about his reaction to the survey data and replied the Minnesota Republican that his party’s candidate “will win this election.” That may have been true, although it didn’t do much to answer the question of whether a majority of the public concluded that Trump was, in fact, a fascist.

However, the interview continued, and the host asked the Republican congressman about the allegations – made by members of Trump’s team – that former president he privately praised Adolf Hitler’s generals during his tenure in the White House. Does Emmer like this rhetoric? He refused to answer, considering the question irrelevant.

And so Bolduan tried again. This was reported on NBC News: :

Bolduan asked at one point: “Does it personally bother you if Donald Trump says he wants his generals to be like Hitler’s generals?” After a short pause, Emmer said in part: “The Americans don’t want to talk about it.”

It was hard to watch.

The strange thing is that the House GOP leader could give a pretty obvious answer. “Of course, no one in American politics should have anything positive to say about Hitler or his generals, but I do not believe the recent reports and Trump has denied these claims.”

See how simple it is?

But the House majority whip, afraid of his own shadow, wouldn’t even go that far.

Recent history is an important part of this story: a majority of House Republicans voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election, but Emmer did the right thing and he sided with democracy.

To put it mildly, Trump harbored a grudge – and derailed Emmer’s candidacy for Speaker of the House of Representatives exactly one year ago this week.

Republican from Minnesota he resorted to humiliating measures he managed to get back into the former president’s good graces by abandoning any sense of pride, and his efforts ultimately paid off.

After Emmer embarrassed himself with excessive flattery, Trump he was said to have boasted privatelyreferring to the congressman, “They always bend at the knee.”

A year later, as Emmer’s pathetic appearance on CNN showed, too little has changed.