Trump’s remark completely drove Kelly, a former United States Marine Corps general, crazy, Bender describes in a book called Frankly, We Did Win This Election (Honestly, we really won this election).
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Bender said Trump said the sentence during an impromptu history lesson in which Kelly reminded him which countries were on which side during the conflict. And he connected the points of the First World War with the Second World War and all the atrocities committed by Hitler.
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Kelly had a remark that Hitler had done a lot of good to tell Trump that he was wrong. But that did not deter the president. According to the book, the then head of state was supposed to defend himself by talking about the growing economy of Nazi Germany, to which Kelly replied: “Even if you were right, you simply cannot say anything positive about Adolf Hitler’s address. Just no.”
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Kelly resigned from the White House in 2019 and has spoken critically about Trump ever since. According to the author of the book, he did everything he could to reconsider Trump’s incredible contempt for history.
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Bender states in the book that other members of his administration also described Trump’s knowledge of slavery or the black experience of the post-war period after the American Civil War as superficial to vague.
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Bender, who works for the Wall Street Journal, is one of the few journalists interviewed by Trump after his presidency.
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