A Holocaust survivor on Thursday slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for comparing former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and accusing him of wanting a military that was loyal to him and not to the country.
In a video message, 94-year-old Auschwitz camp Holocaust survivor came in defence of the Republican hopeful and said that for Kamala to accuse Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing he has ever heard in my 75 years living in the United States.
“My name is Jerry Warski. I’m 94 years old and survivor of Auschwitz and the death marches. Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was nine years old. He murdered my parents and most of our family. I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes,” the survivor said.
“For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my 75 years living in the United States. I know President Trump and he would never say this. And Kamala Harris knows this. She owes my parents and everybody else who was murdered by Hitler an apology for repeating this lie,” he added.
Asked by an off-camera questioner why the Jewish people should back Trump, Wartski responds: “Because he’s a mensch.”
“I believe that President Trump is definitely going to be good for Israel because everything that he’s done up to now was in favor. He never double crossed anyone and he never showed any weakness. Watching President Trump pray for the hostages at the Ohl and getting to spend time with him, so meaningful,” Warski said.
“He has always stood with the Jewish people and the state of Israel,’ he added.
The remarks came days after Harris reacted to the claims made by Donald Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly in an NYT interview that ex-president used to speak admiringly of Adolf Hitler and would seek to govern as a dictator.
While speaking at a CNN town hall, Harris said that she believed Trump is a danger to the well-being and security of the US and said the American people deserve a president who maintains “certain standards,” which include “certainly not comparing oneself, in a clearly admiring way, to Hitler.”
“It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said Wednesday just now outside her official residence at the Naval Observatory in northwest Washington DC.
“All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is,” she claimed. “In just the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within, and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens,” Harris said “and let’s be clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within. Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to criticize him would qualify, in his mind, as the enemy within — like judges, like journalists, like non-partisan election officials.