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

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