CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots,"

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6. CNN article:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/kfile-rfk-jr-trump-critique

RFK Jr. compared Trump to Hitler and praised descriptions of his supporters as ‘Nazis’

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
6 min read
Updated 9:14 AM EST, Thu November 21, 2024

(CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, has a long history of scathing critiques against Trump, labeling him a “threat to democracy,” a “bully,” and, as recently as July, a “terrible president.”

But Kennedy’s harshest attacks date back to Trump’s rise in 2016, when on his radio show “Ring of Fire,” Kennedy applauded descriptions of Trump’s base as “belligerent idiots” and suggestions that some were “outright Nazis” and “spineless fellow travelers.” Kennedy also likened Trump to historical demagogues like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, accusing Trump of exploiting societal insecurities and xenophobia to amass power.

After Trump won in 2016, Kennedy concluded in one episode from December of that year that Trump was at least in one way not like Hitler, because, “Hitler was interested in policy.”

A CNN KFile review of Kennedy’s past comments shows they fit a pattern of consistent, broad-based criticism that Kennedy has leveled at Trump over the years.

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