Kamala Harris increasing threats against Trump with ‘fascist’ claims: Mike Johnson, Mitch McConnell

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are calling out Kamala Harris for “escalating” threats against former President Donald Trump by labeling him a “fascist” and promoting claims he is like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

“Vice President Harris probably wants the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive authority. But first, he must abandon baseless and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions,” Johnson (R-La.) and McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a joint statement Friday.

“We have both been briefed on the ongoing and persistent threats to former President Donald Trump by adversaries of the United States, and we call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and ensure The call for help that President Trump has. The resources needed to keep us safe from those threats.”

Asked whether Trump, 78, was a “fascist” during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night, Harris, 59, shook her head and replied: “Yes, I’m a fascist.” yes I do.”

He and his campaign have also promoted claims this week by former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly that the 45th president expressed admiration for Hitler and his generals.

The heightened rhetoric followed a summer of political violence, in which the former president was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin at a Pennsylvania campaign rally and nearly shot by another while playing golf at a West Palm Beach, Florida, resort.

“This summer, after the first attempt to assassinate a presidential candidate in more than a century, President Biden insisted that ‘we cannot allow this violence to become normal,'” Johnson and McConnell said. “In September, after surviving another close call with President Trump, Vice President Harris acknowledged that ‘We must all do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to further violence.'”

“These words have proved to be hollow. “In the weeks since that second sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States has only stoked the fire under the boiling cauldron of political animosity,” he said. “His most recent and most reckless invocation of the darkest evil of the 20th century seems to dare it to boil over. “The Vice President’s words are more in line with the words of another would-be assassin of President Trump than his earlier appeals for civility.”

Republican congressional leaders also said, “The man captured in the Florida ambush issued a terrifying call to others: ‘It’s up to you to finish the job now.’ “Labeling a political opponent as a ‘fascist’ risks inviting another potential murderer to try to rob voters of their choice before Election Day.”