Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told The Tennessee Star on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris must apologize after she fanned the “flames of political violence” in her remarks, delivered earlier that day from the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., where she compared former President Donald Trump to genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler.
Ramaswamy described Harris’ speech as “insane” and “irresponsible” in a statement provided exclusively to The Star.
“Comparing Trump to ‘Hitler’ is not only insane, it’s irresponsible given the near-tragedies we’ve seen in recent months,” said Ramaswamy, alluding to the multiple confirmed attempts to assassinate Trump.
Trump’s ear was grazed by an assassin’s bullet in a storm of gunfire that killed Corey Comperatore on July 13, and weeks later he was rushed away from his Florida golf course after Ryan Routh was allegedly waiting to assassinate the former president when authorities say a Secret Service agent saw the would-be killer’s rifle and opened fire. A third assassination attempt was claimed by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in California, but the man named in the accusation and his surrogates have denied he sought to harm the former president.