Over the past several weeks, more than a few bombshell revelations have come out against disgraced ex-President Trump, thanks to a few different tell-all books covering different aspects of his time in the White House, ruining the lives of millions of Americans on his every whim.
However, of all the bombshells and massive news stories to make waves in the media these past couple of months, this one, I think, is by far the most heinous and disgusting.
According to a new book from the Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender, Frankly, We Did Win This Election, former President Trump once stunned and disgusted his then Chief of Staff John Kelly when he declared “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things,” during a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war.
The Guardian recently obtained an excerpt from the tell-all book, detailing Trump’s alleged remarks that made Kelly shudder.
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Bender claims that Trump’s horrifying remarks came during an impromptu history lesson as Kelly “reminded the president which countries were on which side during the conflict” and “connected the dots from the first world war to the second world war and all of Hitler’s atrocities.”
Bender is, of course, one of several authors/reporters to interview the ex-president after he left the White House in a cloud of shame and baseless conspiracy theories.
Trump’s new spokesperson, Liz Harrington, was quick to try to get ahead of this revelation, saying in a statement: “This is totally false. President Trump never said this. It is made-up fake news, probably by a general who was incompetent and was fired.”
However, Bender asserts that unnamed sources were the ones to tell him that Kelly “told the president that he was wrong, but Trump was undeterred,” with the then-president citing economic recovery in Germany under Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror in the 1930s.
“Kelly pushed back again,” the Wall Street Journal reporter writes, “and argued that the German people would have been better off poor than subjected to the Nazi genocide.”
Bender goes on to add that Kelly explained to then-President Trump that even if his claims about the German economy were true, “you cannot ever say anything supportive of Adolf Hitler. You just can’t.”
It was on this same trip that Trump was reported to have called US soldiers who died in the war “losers” and “suckers.”
Kelly, who lost his son in Afghanistan in 2010, ultimately left the White House in 2019 and has been publicly and vocally critical of the now ex-president ever since. Kelly reportedly told his close friends that Donald Trump was “the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”
Bender notes in his tell-all opus that Kelly did his very best to look past Trump’s “stunning disregard for history.”
“Senior officials described his understanding of slavery, Jim Crow, or the Black experience in general post-civil war as vague to non-existent,” Bender writes. “But Trump’s indifference to Black history was similar to his disregard for the history of any race, religion or creed.”
Of course, this is far from the first time that Donald Trump has shown a very problematic level of sympathy and even admiration for some of the world’s most heinous people. He made positive remarks about “both sides” of people after a woman was murdered at a white supremacist rally. He visibly and publicly struggled to denounce the Proud Boys on the debates stage last yea, ultimately sending what sounded like a call to action to the hate group to “stand back and stand by.”
It’s really no surprise that Trump would express his admiration for the likes of Adolf Hitler, given that he’s a whole lot like the infamous dictator who was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews; so much so, in fact, that the German magazine Stern once published a cover featuring the then United States President giving a Nazi salute while wrapped in the US flag. The headline on the magazine read, “Sein Kampf,” which translates to “his struggle.”
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