Trump: “Hitler did a lot of good things”

“Hitler did many good things.” Donald Trump said this during a tour of Europe conducted in 2018 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The words of the former US president would have “ shocked ” then White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, with whom Trump was speaking. This is what reveals the book ‘Frankly, We Did Win This Election’: The Inside Story Of How Trump Lost ‘by Michael Bender, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. The book will be available from bookstores next week, but the Guardian got a copy early. In the text, Bender writes that Trump later denied having expressed appreciation of Hilter, but some sources on condition of anonymity reported that on that occasion Kelly “told the president that he was wrong. But Trump was undeterred” and stressed the German economic recovery. under the Fuhrer in the 1930s. “Kelly retorted again – writes Bender – and argued that poverty would have been a better situation for the German people than under the Nazi regime”. Kelly would have cut off any discussion by stating that, beyond evaluations of the German economy after 1933, “you can never say anything in support of Adolf Hitler. You simply cannot”.