New York Mayor Eric Adams says Trump is not a fascist

New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said before former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden that doesn’t imagine Trump is a fascist.

According to Politico, on October 26, Adams told reporters gathered at a news conference at New York Police Headquarters that he thought comparisons to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler were exaggerated. Asked if, like Vice President Kamala Harris and former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, he believes the previous president is a fascist, Adams replied: “My answer is no, I know what Hitler did and I know what a crime what a fascist regime looks like. “

According to Kelly, saying that Trump meets the definition of a fascist is a disturbing event within the history of American politics.

“But over the nine years he has run for president or served, Mr. Trump has regularly invoked the language, history and themes of fascism without hesitation or apparent concern for what it would look like,” political reporter Peter Baker wrote.

He added that “no American commander-in-chief in the last few centuries has so aggressively sought to discredit the institutions of democracy at home while openly approving and envying dictators abroad.” Moreover, no president “has ever been publicly accused of fascism by his own hand-picked top adviser who spent day after day with him in the Oval Office.”

According to Politico, Adams’ reticence to criticize Trump is partly as a result of courting his support within the face of waning support resulting from a federal investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption.

A/Siena survey it currently shows Adams’ poll on the back each former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York Attorney General Leticia James amongst likely Democratic voters.

Additionally, Adams is more popular amongst Republican voters, who usually tend to say he did nothing incorrect. Democratic voters, including Black and Latino voters, once a strong bloc for Adams, have resented the mayor since his 2021 victory.

The only presumptive candidate within the mayoral race to comment on the poll was Jessica Ramos.

“New Yorkers lost faith in Eric Adams before the Southern District confirmed his corruption,” she told Politico. “It is telling that he refused to appear at the first forum in the Bronx to defend his record and share his vision. “He has polls that show that working New Yorkers who have relied on him are fed up.”