On Tuesday, former Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill declared Donald Trump was “more dangerous” than Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini.

McCaskill made the comment during an interview on MSNBC when Alicia Menendez asked McCaskill about Trump “stoking violence” around the country.

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“A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like ‘vermin’ and the drive that those men had towards autocracy and dictatorship,” McCaskill responded.

“The difference, though, I think makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is he has no philosophy he believes in. He is not trying to expand the boundaries of the United States of America,” she continued.

“He is not trying to overcome a neighboring country like Putin is in Ukraine. He is not going for a grandiose scheme of international dominance. All he wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who is president. All he cares about is selfish self-promotion. That’s the only philosophy he has,” McCaskill said.

McCaskill is one of multiple Democrats to compare the former president to Hitler, the dictator leader of Nazi Germany, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton, who joined the hosts of “The View” earlier this month, said that Trump would be “even worse” now if he were elected in 2024.

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“When I was secretary of state, I used to talk about ‘one and done.’ What I meant by that is that people would get legitimately elected, and then they would try to do away with elections and do away with opposition and do away with a free press,” Clinton said.

“Hitler was duly elected right? And so, all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, the dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like, ‘Oh, OK, we’re going to shut this down, we’re going to throw these people in jail,’ and they didn’t usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do,” she continued.

Media pundits and Democrats have made the comparison of late after the former president used the term “vermin” to refer to his political foes.

 

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