Overview
- On Nicolle Wallace’s The Best People podcast, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he has never suggested Donald Trump is Hitler, and Wallace said she doesn’t think any Democrat has and called such claims a smear.
- Pritzker made the denial a week after drawing parallels between Trump-era immigration enforcement and Nazi-era actions in remarks to The Economic Club of Chicago.
- News outlets countered with examples of Democrats invoking Hitler or Nazi analogies about Trump, citing comments from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, among others.
- Coverage also noted Wallace’s own past on-air remark in 2018 likening crowd reactions to those who “cheered at Hitler,” undercutting her assertion on the podcast.
- As of Oct. 28, neither Pritzker nor Wallace has retracted or clarified the statements, and the exchange remains disputed across partisan media.