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Scott Jennings Causes CNN Panelist To Go On Tangent By Mentioning Biden, ‘Morning Joe’ Meetings With ‘Hitler’

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Republican strategist Scott Jennings caused a professor on a CNN panel to go on a tangent about how President-elect Donald Trump was “totalitarian” Monday night by mentioning Trump’s meetings with President Joe Biden and MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

Trump met with Biden and the “Morning Joe” co-hosts less than two weeks after he secured the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency early in the morning of Nov. 6. While speaking to the CNN panel, Jennings reacted after Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky compared Biden’s meeting with Trump to a scene from a “Superman” movie where the president “knelt before Zod.”

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“I did not expect Hitler to get so many meeting requests. First from Joe Biden, now from Mika and Joe it’s amazing that literal Hitler is getting all these meeting requests,” Jennings told Jeff Jarvis, a professor of journalism at the City University of New York. “And what it tells me professor, is that all the rhetoric that came from the left, from the Democrats, from the White House, from Kamala Harris and everyone else before the election, all of the rhetoric, the fascism, the Hitler, the Nazi rally, it was all a bunch of BS. They didn’t mean any of it and if I were and if I were in the Democrat sort of rabble’s shoes, I would be looking at all my leaders and going, did you just BS me for an entire six weeks before the election?”

Harris and her running mate, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, escalated attacks on Trump in the days leading up to the election, with Harris devoting a major speech on Oct. 30 to attacking the former president as a “petty tyrant” days after calling Trump a “fascist” during a CNN town hall. Walz compared Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden to a 1939 rally at the venue held by a group sympathetic to Nazi Germany.

“I just reread Hannah Arendt’s ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism,’ and I cannot tell you how relevant it is to today. What has gone on in totalitarian regimes before is what is happening in this country right now,” Jarvis responded. “It is fascism. His generals called him fascist. Joe Scarborough called him fascist, and now the fascist is in charge and it is journalism’s job to cover it that way, not to back off and say okay, well that’s it, we lost, let the fascism happen. No.”

“It says a lot more actually about them than it does about their beliefs, because they believe it they just don’t care because they believe in their own careers more,” Roginsky chimed in. “And that’s the part that’s disgusting to me.”