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Former White House chief of staff: Trump said he wanted ‘the kind of generals Hitler had’
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Then-US president Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly walk toward Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told aides during his presidency that he sought “the kind of generals that Hitler had,” according to a new report in The Atlantic, which cites two people who heard him make the comment.
A spokesperson for Trump denies that the former president said that.
But Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly tells The Atlantic that Trump “raised the subject of ‘German generals.'”
“‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” Kelly recalls asking him during his Atlantic interview.
“‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals,’” Kelly quotes Trump as having said.
Kelly also published a book in 2021 about his time working for Trump and then too claimed that the former president had said, “Hitler did a lot of good things.”
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