Harris pounces on Gen Kelly claim that Trump said Hitler did ‘good things’
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US vice president says the comments, which Trump denies saying, are a ‘window’ into who Republican candidate really is.
Washington, DC – As the election in the United States enters its final stretch, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris is amplifying scathing comments by a former top White House official, who served under Donald Trump, suggesting that the Republican candidate is a “fascist”.
In remarks published in the New York Times late on Tuesday, Trump’s longest serving White House chief of staff, General John Kelly, said that he witnessed the former president speak positively of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly told The New York Times.
A former Marine general, Kelly served as secretary of Homeland Security for the first months of Trump’s presidency in 2017 before becoming White House chief of staff – a position he held until 2019.
In a separate account, The Atlantic magazine reported, citing two unidentified sources, that Trump had said at the White House that he needs “the kind of generals that Hitler had”.
