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Did Donald Trump praise Hitler? What we know
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Trump expressed admiration for the loyalty shown by Adolf Hitler's generals.www.newsweek.com
Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser said in their 2022 book The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 that Trump had asked Kelly "why can't you be like the German generals?" When Kelly replied that German generals "tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off" Trump reportedly replied: "No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him."
Kelly gave a separate account of the "German generals" conversation with Goldberg. The chief of staff said he replied: "Do you mean [Otto von] Bismarck's generals?
He added: "I mean, I knew he didn't know who [19th-century German Chancellor] Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, 'Do you mean the Kaiser's generals? Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals? And he said, 'Yeah, yeah, Hitler's generals.' I explained to him that [field marshal Erwin] Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler."
Speaking to CNN on Tuesday John Bolton, formerly Trump's White House national security adviser, said he believed Kelly's account.
Bolton said: "You can take what John says to the bank.
"If John says that Donald Trump said them, I believe them implicitly."
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