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From Fox News: New York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters Saturday that he does not believe former President Trump is a fascist, while defending the Republican presidential nominee the day before a major rally at Madison Square Garden.
Adams and other city leaders held a press conference at the New Yew City Police Department headquarters on Saturday afternoon to discuss security measures before the campaign rally in Manhattan.
During the press conference, a reporter asked Adams if he believed Trump is a fascist, as others have said.
“I’ve heard those terms hurled at me by some political leaders in the city, using terms like Hitler and fascist,” Adams said. “My answer is no. I know what Hitler has done and I know what a fascist regime looks like.”
Top Democrats have been in an uproar over Trump holding a rally at Madison Square Garden. Hillary Clinton falsely claimed in a CNN interview Thursday night that “Trump is actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939,” referring to the infamous Nazi rally that was held in the arena that year.
Mayor Adams said, “As I’ve called over and over again, the level of conversation… we could all dial down the temperature. I’ve heard people say the former president should not be allowed to have a rally in Madison Square Garden. I strongly disagree.”
“This is America. This is New York, and I think it’s important that we allow individuals to exercise their right to get their message clear to New Yorkers. Our job as a city and as a police department is to make sure they can do that in a peaceful way,” Adams continued.
“I think we must be extremely cautious. The heat we turn up today pre-election is going to have to be the heat we are going to have to govern by, and we need to show a level of respectable communication,” he said.
“When people called me a fascist and other terminologies, I didn’t like it and I don’t think it’s fitting to anyone to state that the former president is equal to being Hitler,” he added.
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