'He knew what he was doing': Obama aide shuts down outraged conservative over Trump attack
Donald Trump's longest-serving chief of staff recently called his former boss a "fascist," and said Trump wished his generals were more like Adolf Hitler's generals, but one conservative analyst has had it with tying the former president's fans to Nazis.
Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), appeared on MSNBC Saturday, where he spoke up about what he thinks is an unfair comparison regarding Trump. Buck, a conservative critic of the former president, said Hillary Clinton went too far when she compared Trump's upcoming rally at Madison Square Garden to a Nazi event.
"I do have to say, I find that Madison Square Garden conversation a bit silly," Buck said. "Look, what Hillary Clinton said there is completely obnoxious."
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Buck continued, saying, "I am as critical of Donald Trump as anybody but people going to Madison Square Garden that night are not gathering for a Nazi gathering. It is an arena."
"I don't think setting foot in Madison Square Garden makes anybody who goes there a Nazi," he added. "That is the kind of rhetoric that just tells people it doesn't matter. They are going to say anything they want. Now all of a sudden going to Madison Square Garden you are a Nazi. I can't tell you how much that upsets people who are on the fence on Donald Trump and say they are just out to get him and they will say anything. I don't know why it has to go that level."
After a short protest from the MSNBC show's host, Buck got louder.
"I don't think Madison Square Garden has anything different to do with the rally he is having right now as it relates to Nazism. What Hillary Clinton said is that people who gathered that day were there to pleasure allegiance to Nazism and that's what's going to happen again at Madison Square Garden. That is so disrespectful to a lot of people, I don't support Donald trump, I think he's a bad guy, but people who go there are not pledging their support to Nazism, which is what Hillary Clinton said."
Former Obama campaign advisor Ameshia Cross, on the other hand, argued in response to Buck that Trump knows exactly what he's doing when he plans his events at famous sites of racist leaders.
"He knew what he was doing then," she said.