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Fetterman Says Democrats rCyLost The PlotrCO By Calling Trump rCyFascistrCO rCo
But He Did It Too
The Pennsylvania senator told Sean Hannity he has "always refused" to
use that kind of language about political opponents, but that's not true. Jazmin Tolliver
By
Oct 23, 2025, 07:34 PM EDT
|Updated 3 hours ago
109 COMMENTS

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

Appearing on Fox NewsrCO rCLHannityrCY on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania senator claimed former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic PartyrCOs
nominee for president against Donald Trump in 2024, rCLlost the plotrCY when she called Trump a rCLfascist.rCY

rCLWhen Vice President Harris referred to President Trump as a rCyfascistrCOrCa
I knew absolutely we lost the plot at that point,rCY Fetterman told host
Sean Hannity.

Fetterman argued that labeling the president a fascist is rCLeffectively calling the people that are going to vote for himrCY the same thing and suggests they rCLsupport fascism and those things.rCY

rCLAnd thatrCOs just not true,rCY he said.

Fetterman added that rCLextreme kinds of rhetoricrCY can lead to an outcome like last monthrCOs fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

rCLI refuse to do those kinds of things,rCY Fetterman continued, rCLbecause that kind of extreme ... rhetoric makes it easier for those kinds of
extreme kinds of actions rCo even like what happened to poor Charlie Kirk.rCY

ADespite telling Hannity that he has rCLalways refusedrCY to call Trump and his supporters fascist, Fetterman actually made a fascism joke at
TrumprCOs expense in 2017.

rCLAlso, @realDonaldTrump saw his shadow- 4 more years of fascism,rCY Fetterman wrote in a February 2017 X post alongside a GIF of Bill Murray
in the 1993 film rCLGroundhog Day.rCY

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, a once-vocal Trump-hater, has become increasingly critical of his fellow Democratic Party members, including
former Vice President Kamala Harris.Getty Images
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Telling Hannity that he rCLhappen[s] to know and love a lot of people who voted for the president, and they are not fascist,rCY Fetterman added,
rCLThey are not Nazis, theyrCOre not trying to destroy the Constitution and all those things. They just happen to have different priorities, and
they love our country in the same ways that Democrats do as well.rCY

In late October 2024, Harris was asked at a CNN town hall whether she
thought Trump was a fascist, to which she replied, rCLYes, I do.rCY She also argued that voters should listen when people who worked in the White
House and know Trump best have called him rCLunfit and dangerous.rCY

HarrisrCO 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 rCLthe general
definition of a fascist.rCY


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