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Donald Trump is facing a fresh storm of criticism following a report that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had.”
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” the Republican presidential nominee allegedly declared, according to The Atlantic. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
The claim has been vehemently denied by Trump’s campaign.
Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly also told The New York Times that the former president praised Hitler multiple times, warning that the GOP candidate meets the definition of a fascist.
Kamala Harris responded to the reports in remarks at Naval Observatory on Wednesday lunchtime, warning that the former president is “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” and in a second Trump term “people like John Kelly will no longer be there to rein him in.”
Harris meanwhile took part in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday night and will follow that with a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, today taking questions from undecided swing state voters.
Trump is campaigning in Georgia today and JD Vance is in Nevada.
Trump reportedly said he needs ‘the kind of generals that Hitler had’ as Kelly brands him a ‘fascist’
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Former aide to Gen John Kelly implores voters to listen to warning about Trump
A former top aide to Gen John Kelly is defending his former boss and says voters should listen to what he has to say about former president Donald Trump's unfitness for office.
Kevin Carroll, a retired US Army colonel who served as a senior counselor to Kelly when Kelly was Trump's homeland security secretary, told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that Kelly's choice to speak out against the ex-president is “no small step” for the retired US Marine general.
“He's seen Donald Trump up close in a way that very few other Americans have, and he's warning us that a second Trump term would be dangerous,” he said. “Leaders like General Kelly are warning us that Trump has no empathy, that he's increasingly unstable and unfit, and that he's more extreme than ever. I think we have an obligation to take General Kelly and these other leaders such as Secretary Esper, Secretary Mattis, Chairman Milley, seriously when they say these things.”
Carroll also said Kelly is trying to warn Americans that the “guardrails” that kept Trump from abusing much of his power “won't exist” in a second Trump administration because Trump would prioritize loyalty to him over all else when staffing his second-term staff.
“General Kelly is warning us that Trump is seeking the power to do anything he wants, anytime he wants. Trump is now running to give himself unprecedented, unchecked ... extreme powers. He's surrounding himself with little loyalists and toadies who will green light every one of his wishes, letting him bulldoze the tenants of our democracy and lock up fellow Americans, including sitting members of Congress, whom he calls the enemy within,” he said.
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The ad highlights Donald Trump's failure to take his oath to defend the Constitution seriously, and features former Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell slamming the former president for calling January 6 insurrectionists “warriors” while actively insulting those who defended the Capitol.
Watch below:
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Fox News host tries to justify Trump allegedly wanting ‘kind of generals that Hitler had’
As we have reported, Donald Trump is facing a fresh storm of criticism following a report that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had”. The claim is vehemently denied by the Trump campaign.
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” the Republican presidential nominee allegedly declared, according to The Atlantic. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fox & Friends, stepped up this morning to try and justify why the former president would want such generals, implying that maybe Trump wanted German generals under Hitler who weren’t Nazis... 🤔
Watch below as he explains:
The Lincoln Project posted on X in response: “There's an ‘enemy within’ alright, and it's Americans who will justify any admiration of literal Nazis.”
They added: “Fox is not your friend.”
Comedian Mrs Betty Bowers tweeted: “Wanting the generals who lost the war is such a Donald Trump thing to do.”
Watch: Former Trump aide says John Kelly’s comments on former president should be believed
House leadership to join Trump at Madison Square Garden rally
Punchbowl News reports that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other members of the Republican party leadership in the lower chamber of Congress will join former president Donald Trump at his rally this Sunday in Madison Square Garden in New York.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and other GOP lawmakers are also expected to attend the sold out event that will also function as a big fundraiser for the campaign, just nine days out from the election.
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Lincoln Project attempts to sow discord in Trump campaign with latest ad
Speaking of Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, here’s anti-Trump conservative group The Lincoln Project with their latest ad calling out the enormous salary he is reportedly earning:
“I’ve got a business proposition for you Donald, you can pay me a mere $15 million and I’ll wreck your campaign even harder,” said Rick Wilson, Co-Founder of the Lincoln Project. “He’s draining you like a cash cow Donald, if only you were with it enough to realize.”
Well, this is awkward...
CNN’s KFile has a new report out saying that Donald Trump’s campaign manager Chris LaCivita shared posts in 2021 saying Trump’s lies caused the violence on January 6.
That would be the same campaign manager who is reportedly being paid $22m for the 2024 election cycle.
LaCivita was not alone as a number of conservatives and Republicans broke ranks with the then-president and blamed him for the violence that day.
Among the posts shared by him was the statement condemning the attack on the Capitol issued by former president George W Bush. He also liked a post by former Republican Rep Barbara Comstock of Virginia, who called on the cabinet to remove Trump using the 25th Amendment.
Per CNN:
In a series of reposts on X – formerly Twitter – LaCivita shared comments calling January 6 an “insurrection” that was fueled by Trump’s baseless election lies. Some of those posts have since been deleted from LaCivita’s feed, but CNN was able to review them on the Internet Archive WayBack Machine, which archives internet webpages.
On January 6, 2021, LaCivita reposted several posts that harshly condemned Trump, suggesting that even some of his closest allies once viewed the deadly outcome as a direct result of Trump’s lies.
In a statement to CNN, Lacivita said his likes and retweets on January 6 were not supportive statements.
“Retweets and likes are not endorsements. I’m focused on winning the election two weeks from now, and not distractions from CNN,” he said.
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