White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday tried to blame what she called a “left-wing cult of hatred” against President Donald Trump for political violence in the nation, including the shooting at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

But one of her complaints caught the eyes and ears of critics.

“Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points are fueling this kind of violence,” she declared.

As many were quick to point out, one of the most prominent examples of someone comparing Trump to Hitler is already in the White House: Vice President JD Vance.

In 2016, when Trump was running for president for the first time, Vance told a friend via private message that he wasn’t sure if Trump was “a cynical asshole like Nixon” or if he could be “America’s Hitler.”

Vance has since said he was wrong about Trump.

But many are reminding Leavitt of what he said in the past:

In 2016, JD Vance suggested that Trump could be “America’s Hitler” https://t.co/gLmhUE4aDe pic.twitter.com/tRANtT2hYq

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https://t.co/yfsx5c0bTX pic.twitter.com/lwkyD9kQAq

His current VP is on record calling him America’s hitler in the past https://t.co/aHa0JUeah7

Hmph. JD Vance compared Trump to Hitler https://t.co/z8DUkZLmjY pic.twitter.com/leTi8kQmWQ

so trump can call dems radicals and enemies of america and demonic and markists and say we hate god and america and his supporters can call for dems to be killed but mean old dems are the problem https://t.co/FVJkMD7dak

He compares democrats to literal demons. Why is that okay? https://t.co/w1JjThnijX

Maybe he should stop acting like Hitler if he doesn’t like the comparisons. https://t.co/bwu6sxwJAn

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