“Adolf Hitler did a lot of good things.” This was stated by Donald Trump during his visit to France in 2018, when he was President of the United States, claims a journalist from the Wall Street Journal in a book that will be published on July 13, AFP reported.
Hitler “did a lot of good things,” the ex-president told then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. https://t.co/LHIQwZbeq6
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) July 7, 2021
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outside the official program of his visit on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, says Michael Bender, author of the book “Frankly, We did win this election” (translated as “Frankly, we won this election”). Excerpts from it were published in American publications before its official premiere.
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Bender claims that Trump made the statement in question
during an impromptu “history lesson” he received from the then head of his office, John Kelly. A former general in the navy, Kelly reminded him of which countries they were on during the conflict and drew parallels between World War I and World War II. He also listed all the atrocities committed by Hitler.
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This was followed by Trump’s statement about Hitler, which shocked Kelly. The head of the president’s office told him he was wrong. However, Trump did not change his position and pointed to Germany’s economic recovery under Nazi rule in the 1930s, said Michael Bender.
Trump told John Kelly that Hitler “did a lot of good things,” book claims https://t.co/rXlklaLeY3 pic.twitter.com/F6Zs15My8K
– The Hill (@thehill) July 7, 2021
The journalist, citing anonymous sources, said that then Kelly replied to Trump: “You can’t say good things about Hitler. At all.”
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Bender also claims that Trump was shockingly ignorant of the story,
in particular on slavery and segregation in the United States.
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The visit of the then President of the United States to France in 2018 caused another controversy, reminds AFP. He canceled his visit to the US military cemetery near Paris, arguing that the weather conditions were unfavorable. However, according to Atlantic magazine, Trump simply had no interest in such a visit.
“Why do I have to go to this cemetery? It is full of losers,” the then US president told his aides, US media wrote last year, citing anonymous sources.
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Trump also called the 1,541 U.S. servicemen killed in the Battle of Belo Forest “jerks” before asking who the “good guys” in the conflict were, Atlantic said in September.
The White House then denied all allegations.
