Democratic Senator John Fetterman is once again taking aim at his own party.

Appearing on News’ “Hannity” on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania senator claimed that former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate against Donald Trump in 2024, “missed the plot” when she called Trump a “fascist.”

“When Vice President Harris referred to President Trump as a ‘fascist’… I absolutely knew we had lost the plot at that moment,” Fetterman told host Sean Hannity.

Fetterman argued that labeling the president a fascist is “effectively calling out the people who are going to vote for him” in the same way and suggesting that “they support fascism and stuff.”

“And that’s simply not true,” he said.

Fetterman added that “extreme types of rhetoric” can lead to an outcome like the shooting death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last month.

“I refuse to do that kind of thing,” Fetterman continued, “because that kind of extreme rhetoric facilitates those kinds of extreme actions, even like what happened to poor Charlie Kirk.”

Despite telling Hannity that he has “always refused” to call Trump and his followers fascists, Fetterman actually made a joke about fascism at Trump’s expense in 2017.

“Also, @realDonaldTrump saw his shadow: 4 more years of fascism,” Fetterman. wrote in a February 2017 X post alongside a GIF of Bill Murray in the 1993 film “Groundhog Day.”

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who once openly hated Trump, has become increasingly critical of his Democratic Party colleagues, including former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who once openly hated Trump, has become increasingly critical of his Democratic Party colleagues, including former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Telling Hannity that he “happened”[s] know and love a lot of people who voted for the president, and they’re not fascists,” Fetterman added, “they’re not Nazis, they’re not trying to destroy the Constitution and all that stuff. “They just have different priorities and love our country the same way Democrats do.”

In late October 2024, Harris was asked at a CNN town hall if she thought Trump was a fascist, to which she responded, “Yes, I do.” He also argued that voters should listen when people who worked in the White House and know Trump best have called him “unfit and dangerous.”

Harris’ comments came the same week that John Kelly, White House chief of staff during the first Trump administration, warned in an interview with The New York Times that his former boss meets “the general definition of a fascist.”

Kelly also confirmed earlier reports about alleged private conversations with Trump in which Trump expressed his admiration for Adolf Hitler “more than once” and claimed that the Nazi leader “did some good things too.”

Fetterman’s comments about “Hannity” were criticized on social media.

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“Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a fascist and called the Biden administration a Gestapo,” former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan wrote in an X post on Tuesday.

Hasan added: “But Fetterman will never criticize Trump. No, his job as a Democratic senator is to go on News with Hannity and attack the Democratic presidential candidate.”

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