President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has joined the club of people within Trump’s current inner circle who once compared him to Adolf Hitler.
CNN’s Andy Kaczynski reported on audio from Kennedy’s radio show “Ring of Fire” in 2016, where he blasted the then-president as a “bully” and a “threat to democracy.”
From the report:
Kennedy applauded descriptions of Trump’s base as “belligerent idiots” and suggestions that some were “outright Nazis” and “spineless fellow travelers.” Kennedy also likened Trump to historical demagogues like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, accusing Trump of exploiting societal insecurities and xenophobia to amass power.
After Trump won in 2016, Kennedy concluded in one episode from December of that year that Trump was at least in one way not like Hitler, because, “Hitler was interested in policy.”
NEW on RFK Jr.: In audio we uncovered from his radio show he read and praised a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots," "outright Nazis," and "cowards" and "bootlickers."
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) November 21, 2024
He also compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.https://t.co/b4hXNCVKMi pic.twitter.com/EjbZS1FP4X