Rep. Swalwell: People Should Vote for Kamala Because ‘Fascist’ Trump Will Be Tweeting if Elected

BERMAN: “So, congressman, you are in what I think is considered pretty safe seat in California, yet you‘ve been running ads about Donald Trump, including this new one, which we got a look at. I want to play a little bit of it right now.”

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UNKNOWN FEMALE: “We were so worried.”
Trump IMPERSONATOR: “They’re eating the dogs!”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “He wasn‘t making any sense.”
Trump IMPERSONATOR: “The people who come, they’re eating the cats.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “And he just kept getting worse. Then a friend told us there was somewhere he could get the help he so desperately needed called ‘A Place for Trump.’”
Trump IMPERSONATOR: “Person, woman, man, camera, TV.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “So this November, let’s vote to put him in A Place for Trump, because we all know he belongs in a home just not this one.”
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BERMAN: “All right, so what’s the goal here? And I ask that because there seems to be a little bit of a mixed message in this case. You are, I think, making fun of Donald Trump, it is safe to say in this case, yet there is a message from some Democrats, including the candidate, that he is a existential threat to democracy.”
Swalwell: “John, he‘s also in cognitive decline. And that ad, Donald Trump makes it a little too on the nose, the way that he‘s acted in the last week, standing almost completely frozen on stage for nearly 30 minutes. He’s almost 80 years old. He continues to talk about completely irrelevant material when he‘s talking to his supporters. And so the argument is, you may like Donald Trump, he may appeal to you in some ways with his policies, but the last place we want to put him is at the White House where he can make decisions about our lives. He‘s just not ready for prime time. And yes, humor, I think, sometimes is the best way to land a point. But his default, and if you do believe that folks will regress to the meme, his default, of course, is a fascist-like tendency during the time that he can have a cognitive ability. And that‘s not an accusation that I‘m making. That‘s an accusation that comes from people who have worked for him at the most senior level.”
BERMAN: “But do you see what I’m saying, that there may be some cognitive dissonance between making a joke about Donald Trump like that and saying he is a fascist? The two things seem a little bit separate. And I do want to note there‘s this new poll from ABC News and Ipsos today which found that 49%, about half of the population, see Donald Trump as a fascist.”
Swalwell: “And those folks want to move on with their lives. I meet independents and Republicans, many of them are my family members, who tell me they just want to get back to their lives. They don‘t want to wake up every morning and check Twitter and see what he‘s tweeting from the toilet. They want to get back to their own lives. And that‘s part of the case that Kamala Harris is making. She‘s going to focus on what you need in your life, and this is not going to be another ‘me, me, me’ presidency.”