Bret Baier Downplays Trump’s Alleged Hitler Praise as Part of Kamala Harris ‘Threat to America‘ Strategy
Fox News anchor Bret Baier appeared to trivialize an Atlantic report that former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly claims former President Donald Trump praised Hitler and insisted that he needed the sort of generals Hitler had.
The Atlantic report has led to intense coverage of the cable news landscape, but other than a full-throated defense of Trump on Fox & Friends, the conservative and increasingly pro-Trump Fox News network has largely ignored it.
Baier commented on the news during a Wednesday morning appearance on America’s Newsroom. Anchor Dana Perino asked Baier to opine on the current state of the presidential race after she cited numerous headlines showing the race tightening or trending for Trump.
“I just want to show with some of these headlines that our team put together here, the Democrats fear the race is slipping away. The clock is ticking on Kamala Harris. Early voting signals some early danger for her in Nevada. Dempsey warnings with the youth in Arizona that there are ominous signs for Kamala Harris’s blue wall because it could be collapsing,” Perino said before asking, “What’s the feel of the race to you right now?”
“All of those bullet points, all of those data points are accurate, and they’re just raw numbers, early vote numbers,” Baeir replied. “But we always have to have the caveat, and I think Republicans can feel good about that. But, you know, the get out the vote historically for Democrats has been really good in the closing days.”
“It seems like Vice President Harris is closing with the ‘threat to America’ from the former president,” he added, before including reports of Kelly claiming Trump praised Hitler.
“You saw that Atlantic piece referencing former chief of staff John Kelly talking about how the president talked about Hitler and all of these things will be packaged together to make this closing argument that she’s making alongside former Congresswoman Liz Cheney,” suggesting that the former Chief of Staff’s comments are only being surfaced for partisan reasons, and not because the Republican candidate was alleged to have praised Hitler by his former chief deputy and decorated general.
“Does that work? We don’t know,” Baier added. “Right now, the momentum heading into this week seemed to be on the former president’s side. But the get-out-the-vote operation in different states is really the undetermined factor.’
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