Don Jr gets into post-debate spat with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins over ‘Hitler’ comments

Donald Trump Jr clashed with Kaitlan Collins about his father previously being compared to Adolf Hitler – before the CNN journalist reminded him that JD Vance once did the very same thing.

On Tuesday night, the Ohio senator and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz faced off for their first – and likely only – debate ahead of the election, broadcast live from CBS News’s New York City studio.

As the candidates exchanged barbs, Trump’s eldest son Don Jr waited in the wings in the spin room.

While Vance and Walz were relatively well-mannered on stage, the 46-year-old appeared riled up and quickly turned his attention away from the debate itself as he lashed out at Collins and blamed the media for the assassination attempts on his father.

“The media has radicalized the people that are trying to kill my father,” the businessman told Collins, addressing the two recent attempts on his father’s life at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally in July and then at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf resort last month.

“No one wants the threats against his life to happen,” Collins said.

“You can’t blame the media for those threats, there’s been no evidence that that’s what drove those.”

Don Jr retorted: “When someone calls – and allows people to have a platform to call someone literally Hitler every day for nine years, it creates it, whether you want to believe it or not.”

Collins, however, quickly pointed out that the very man Don Jr had been cheering on that night had previously drawn the same comparisons between Trump and the Nazi dictator.

“But as you know, JD Vance once likened your dad to Hitler as well. He questioned if he was America’s Hitler,” she shut him down.

Back in 2016, Vance was a staunch critic of Trump and in a private message to a friend