Harris criticises Trump over 'dangerous' Hitler remarks

US Vice President Kamala Harris has said Donald Trump is "increasingly unhinged" and called his praise for Adolf Hitler, reported by a former top aide, "incredibly dangerous".

The Democrat's criticism of the former president came with just 13 days left in their tense White House race.

She spoke outside her residence in Washington after Mr Trump's former presidential chief of staff, retired Marine general John Kelly, went public with revelations about the Republican's admiration for the Nazi dictator and his military in World War II.

"It's deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans," Ms Harris said before leaving for a televised town hall in swing state Pennsylvania.

"All this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is," she added.

Mr Kelly told The New York Times that Mr Trump had remarked that "Hitler did some good things too" and that instead of the US military he "wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had".

Mr Kelly also repeated his warning that he believes his former boss "certainly falls into the general definition of fascist".

Ms Harris said: "Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions."

"So, the bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power," Ms Harris added, warning that Mr Trump wanted a military that "is loyal to him" and not to the US constitution.

'Blatant foreign interference'

Meanwhile Mr Trump's campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the US presidential election after some volunteers travelled to help campaign for Ms Harris.

The Republican candidate's camp filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an investigation into what it termed apparently illegal contributions from Labour to the Harris campaign.

British political volunteers have long travelled to the US ahead of elections, with activists of the centre-left Labour Party typically supporting the Democrats, its sister party, and Conservatives backing the Republicans.

British officials, who asked not to be named, told that some senior Labour advisers travelled to meet Democrat strategists in recent months, on the back of their landslide victory in the British election in July.

One topic they discussed was how Labour won back almost all the former industrialised areas that abandoned them in 2019.

Mr Starmer denied that the complaint would damage relations with Donald Trump if the former president wins again on 5 November, saying Labour supporters were volunteering in their own time.

But the complaint is a potential complication.

Mr Trump, who is close to Britain's right-wing politician Nigel Farage and previously had good ties with former prime minister Boris Johnson, had praised Mr Starmer when the two met in September at Trump Tower.

Greg Swenson, the chairman of Republican Overseas UK, said Mr Trump is hard to predict, but if he does win the presidency next month this incident is unlikely to damage relations with Mr Starmer.

"Trump takes things personally and lets personal disputes affect him," Mr Swenson said.

"But I think Trump will get over it. There may be a little scar tissue from this, but probably not," he added.

According to US rules, foreigners can volunteer on election campaigns but cannot make financial contributions.

The FEC previously fined the campaign of Bernie Sanders after Australia's Labour Party funded the flights and food of its volunteers to travel to the US and support his campaign.

The Trump complaint cited media reports and a now-deleted LinkedIn post from Sofia Patel, head of operations at Britain's Labour Party, who wrote that nearly 100 current and former Labour party staff would be travelling to the US in the coming weeks to help elect Harris, the Democratic vice-president.

"I write on behalf of Donald J Trump for President 2024, Inc. to request an immediate investigation into blatant foreign interference in the 2024 Presidential Election in the form of apparent illegal foreign national contributions," it said.

"Those searching for foreign interference in our elections need to look no further than (the) LinkedIn post...The interference is occurring in plain sight."

In a press release titled "The British are coming", the Trump campaign also accused the "far-left Labour Party" of inspiring "Kamala's dangerously liberal policies and rhetoric".

Mr Starmer, travelling on a flight to Samoa, told reporters that Labour volunteers had gone to pretty much every US election.

"They're doing it in their spare time, they're doing it as volunteers, they're staying I think with other volunteers over there," he said.

"That's really straightforward," Mr Starmer added.