'Completely ridiculous': Republican defends Trump when pressed on reported Hitler comments

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on Wednesday refused to distance himself from Donald Trump after reports that the former president made admiring comments about Hitler – saying it’s “not fair” to criticize Trump and not Democrats who have taken an anti-Israel stance.

“I have all the respect in the world for John Kelly, half the country doesn't think they're voting for a fascist. It's just that's not where the American voter is,” Sununu told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. “So, I appreciate John Kelly hates Donald Trump. I appreciate a lot of people don't like Donald Trump, but at the end of the day, if you want to have a whole story about how would Trump act in the White House, we've already seen it. He's already been there – he was there for four years.”

Sununu described comments made by Trump’s former chief of staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, circulating this week as “white noise” that wouldn’t sway voters with less than two weeks to go before Election Day. He then turned Blitzer’s line of questioning about whether having “positive things to say about Hitler or dining with holocaust deniers is antisemitic” against the host.

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“If you're going to compare Donald Trump to Hitler, who murdered 6 million Jews, I mean that's a completely ridiculous comparison, it’s a ridiculous comparison. The average voter understands that, the average American sees that, they know Trump says crazy, what kind of wild things, nobody knows what really happened in that conversation,” Sununu said.

Blitzer then corrected the governor by telling him he “didn't compare Trump to Hitler” and then again asked his previous question.

“Well, of course those statements are not helpful, and those statements would be antisemitic,” Sununu said. He insisted that it’s “not fair” to talk about Trump when there is “constant antisemitism” that “liberals and progressives have pushed on college campuses all last year.”

He concluded the interview by saying that Trump’s former national security officials who have since warned about the dangers of a second Trump term have nothing more than “a personal divide between all of them and the former president.”

“I have my own personal divide between myself and Trump. I haven’t talked to the guy in years,” he said.

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