Donald Trump‘s former chief of staff John Kelly made public the former president’s alleged statements about Adolf Hitler two weeks before the election. “You know, Hitler did some good things too,” he heard from Trump several times, Kelly told the New York Times. He then pointed to Hitler’s racism and fascism as the motivation for his actions, after which the conversation mostly dried up, Kelly said in the interview published on Tuesday.
Kelly confirmed to “The Atlantic” magazine that Trump had said in a conversation that he wanted generals as loyal as “Hitler’s generals.” A spokesman for Trump’s campaign team denied that Trump said that. The Trump camp had already denied Kelly credibility Former Marine General Kelly was Trump’s White House chief of staff from 2017 to 2019. Kelly also told the New York Times that, in his view, Trump “falls under the general definition of a fascist.” He referred to the description of fascism as an extreme right-wing, authoritarian and ultranationalist ideology, in which, among other things, there is a dictatorial leader and a suppression of the opposition. Based on his experiences, Trump thinks America would be better governed this way, Kelly said.
The seventy-four-year-old Kelly pointed out the reason why he was now taking a public stand Trump’s recent comments about the “enemies within”to which the ex-president included several well-known Democratic politicians.
