Ex-Trump spokesman links him to Hitler and Mussolini in warning to business leaders

Former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is now explicitly comparing his former boss to fascist dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Politico reports that Scaramucci gave a warning to business leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that they would come to regret lining up behind Trump should he become the Republican Party's nominee, and he said they needed to look back to the relationships between business leaders and fascist regimes for proof.

"The business leaders were generally okay with Mussolini," Scaramucci explained, according to Politico. "They were generally okay with Hitler. Until it goes crazy. Then five years into it the cronyism kicks in, the unpredictability of the law kicks in, the expansion of autocratic powers kicks in."

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Scaramucci then drew explicit parallels between those two leaders and what Trump has planned for a second term.

"[Trump] has told you he wants to be a dictator," said Scaramucci. "He has told you that he wants to expand the executive powers. He has told you he’s going to go after his enemies."

Scaramucci was infamously fired from his job less than two weeks after being hired. While he generally remained supportive after that, he firmly broke with Trump when the former president wouldn't back off his calls to tell four women of color in the House Democratic caucuses to "go back" to the countries they came from, even though they were all American citizens.