Bill Maher and Megyn Kelly clash over Trump's claims of fascism

Adolf Hitler comparisons came up frequently during former Fox host Megyn Kelly's conversation with Bill Maher on Friday.

The duo began talking about the Russia-Ukraine War, but quickly descended into a debate about whether Republicans or Democrats were “on the wrong side” of history, with accusations of fascism liberally thrown into the debate.

“I mean, in the news this week, we thought that when the Ukraine war started, Putin was isolated. He is not isolated. He had the BRICS countries – that's Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and now four or five other countries – which make up about half of the world's population, about 35 percent of the GDP,” he said Real Time with Bill Maher Host requested.

“These are the dictator countries. There is a real World War II feel here as the dictator countries come together. I mean, what did Hitler and the Japanese have in common during World War II? Nothing! But they saw the world one way: fascism,” he said.

Maher then suggested that history could repeat itself with partisanship between dictatorships and democracies, suggesting that Republican nominee Donald Trump clearly falls into one camp.

“Somehow the world seems to be split between the 'good' countries – the democratic countries – and these autocracies. And if your husband comes in, we’ll be on the wrong side of this.”

Kelly defended himself: “Okay, when my husband comes in, I think we're going to go back to the time we had when he was president, the only time we didn't start a war and got involved in a war.”

“Putin did not invade Ukraine until Biden took power. We witnessed the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was a sign of weakness around the world. People understood that we were weakened and that was the provocation. Weakness is provocative.

“Trump destabilized these people. They didn't know what to expect from him. Next thing you know, he's bombing Soleimani. “Trump launched strategic attacks that had people on their heels, they didn’t know what he was going to do to them,” she said.

“Yeah, it's what he might do to us that I'm a little more worried about,” Maher replied.

“We had four years of Trump. “Trump didn’t go after his political enemies at the Justice Department, which were Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Kelly said.

Maher then returned to historical comparisons, using Hitler's Third Reich as a sounding board.

“Well, we had Hitler in the '30s and everything was fine, and then we had Hitler in the '40s and things got a lot worse. Just because we had him…”

Kelly interrupted him: “He hid his Hitlerism for the first four years and will come into full force in the second term?”

“Well, he tried to do things like that, he tried to do dictatorial, fascist things, and he was stopped,” Maher said.

Kelly then suggested that President Joe Biden had “broken the law” with student loan forgiveness and rent relief plans, claiming that “he and Kamala Harris are turning this Justice Department against their political enemy Donald Trump, their biggest rival for the presidency.” , have used.” ”

As the audience began to laugh, she asked, “Is it funny?” Because they did. You want to talk about fascism, that’s fascist.”

“I don’t think history will do justice to your point,” Maher concluded after the audience’s laughter subsided.