Nicolle Wallace Is Blatantly Lying About Dems’ Assassination Prep

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said Monday that she doesn’t think “any Democrat has” suggested that President Donald Trump is Hitler — but the record shows Democrats and their media allies have long run an assassination prep campaign against the president.

During Monday’s interview, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker fearmongered about the rise of “authoritarianism” in the United States under Trump, claiming that Trump is “following precisely a kind of playbook that we’ve seen throughout history.” Wallace chimed in to suggest that comparing Trump to Hitler is “not a partisan analysis” because J.D. Vance wondered whether Trump could be “America’s Hitler” back in 2016. (Vance clarified in the Vice Presidential debate last October that he had been “wrong about Donald Trump,” in part because of the media’s “dishonest fabrications of [Trump’s] record.”)

“You’ve put some architecture behind the parallels that involve all of us, and you’ve talked about — the first thing you said was ‘people being asked for their papers,’ American citizens being asked to show up with papers, street vendors being asked to produce passports, rounding people up, and good people looking the other way, thinking ‘that’s not about me. You know, I’m a citizen.’ But who do they go after next?” Wallace said. She then indicated to Pritzker to “talk a little bit about why that’s so uncomfortable for so many people.”

“I’m not suggesting, I haven’t suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler,” Pritzker said. 

“I don’t think any democrat has,” Wallace interjected, before once again pointing to J.D. Vance’s comments.

Wallace’s claim that no Democrat has ever suggested Trump is Hitler is demonstrably false, and her apparent attempt to smear Republicans ignores a years-long campaign by the left to paint Trump as an authoritarian threat to democracy.

Pritzker has a long history of comparing Trump and his administration to the rise of Nazi Germany, as clearly seen in this compilation from Libs of TikTok.

And Pritzker is far from the only Democrat to suggest the comparison. Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said during a 2023 appearance on The View that Trump being reelected would “be the end of our country as we know it.”

“Hitler was duly elected, right? And so, all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, the dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like ‘OK we’re gonna shut this down, we’re gonna throw these people in jail.’ And they didn’t usually telegraph that,” she said. “Trump is telling us what he intends to do.” Clinton also compared Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally last October to a 1939 pro-Nazi rally while on CNN. Failed Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz made a similar comparison.

Fellow failed Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said, “Find me a better analogy” when asked if it was “too far” to compare Trump to the Nazis.

New York Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman said Trump is “paving the way” to become the next Adolf Hitler.

“Comparing the tactics of Donald Trump to…[Adolf] Hitler is a very legitimate thing,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

During Trump’s first term, South Carolina Democrat Rep. James Clyburn said: “I can only equate one period of time with what we experience now, and that was what was going on in Germany around 1934, right after the 1932 elections when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor.”

Although he reportedly said dictator Benito Mussolini may be a better comparison, Clyburn was asked last year by former Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto in a separate interview whether he was “envisioning [Trump as] another Hitler? Is that what you’re saying?”

“That’s exactly what I’m saying, I said the 1930’s in Germany,” Clyburn said.

And of course, who can forget Democrats’ media allies who have endlessly compared Trump to Hitler?

Wallace herself compared Trump to Hitler after Trump called himself a “nationalist” while decrying globalists in 2018, the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time. Wallace, during an interview discussing the remarks, said: “I watch enough History Channel to know that they cheered at Hitler, too.” Meanwhile, other media hack at Wallace’s own network have: used videos from the 1939 pro-Nazi rally during its coverage of Trump’s historic Madison Square Garden rally; peddled the claim that Trump “has truly earned comparisons to Adolf Hitler;” suggested questions about Trump’s “alleged pro-Hitler comments” were “credible;” and said “Trump’s attacks on museums and libraries echo the Nazi playbook.”

This language is best understood as assassination prep language that is meant to both dehumanize Trump and desensitize Americans to potential political violence. Such language implicitly justifies resistance by any means necessary because no free person wants to live under a dictator or tyrant.

Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2