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BOMBSHELL: Trump Told John Kelly, ‘Hitler Did a Lot of Good Things:’ Kelly Did Not Resign and Tell the Nation

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Hitler did not “do a lot of good things.” And John Kelly failed to do one of the most obvious things, something he swore to do. Kelly failed to protect his country.

To review: Hitler destroyed the lives of an entire race, six million people, and started a war that took the lives of millions of others, while also causing suffering, dislocation of families, the list goes on and on and on. Trump knew the list, so did John Kelly.

But Trump thought of Hitler as a complicated person who did a lot of good things, according to a new book. From Huffington Post:

Donald Trump praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during a 2018 trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, a new book claims.

“Well, Hitler did a lot of good things,” the then-president told White House chief of staff John Kelly, according to passages from Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender’s “‘Frankly, We Did Win This Election’: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost” that were published by The Guardian on Wednesday.

Yes, we remember that trip now. So on the same trip in which Trump called our own troops “losers and suckers,” he praised a lot of Hitler’s work? Odd as it might seem, it actually isn’t hard to believe, is it?

Not that Trump even knew what he was talking about. Trump made his point while Kelly, a former U.S. General, taught Trump about who did what during World War One and World War Two. Were it not Trump, this would be a shocking revelation on its own. A U.S. president needed a refresher course on the framework of the 20th Century:

Trump reportedly made the observation while Kelly was reminding him “which countries were on which side during the conflict” and connecting “the dots from the first world war to the second world war and all of Hitler’s atrocities,” said Bender.

Kelly was “stunned” by Trump’s remark, told the then-president he “was wrong,” argued “the German people would have been better off poor than subjected to the Nazi genocide” and said “you cannot ever say anything supportive of Adolf Hitler. You just can’t.”

Kelly was not “stunned” enough to do the only appropriate thing. Quit and announce what he heard.

Trump then remarked that Hitler did some good things in the 1930s with regard to economics. Of course, it was in the 1930s, when it became apparent that the Jews would be blamed and isolated as the cause of all Germany’s problems.

One wants to say “unbelievable” about Trump’s beliefs and yet it is 100% believable. It is also horrifying. This man was president and has a legitimate shot at becoming president again. Another term is unlikely, but the first term was unlikely. And he will certainly not allow himself to be as “restrained” as last time, the same man who thinks Hitler did a lot of good things.

The other horrifying aspect of this story is that we’re reading about it now. John Kelly had an obvious duty to quit on the spot and tell the American people, immediately. By that trip, John Kelly knew that Trump considered our troops to be losers and suckers, didn’t want to honor our troops for fear his hair would get wet and believed that Hitler did a lot of good things. Kelly said nothing and continued to serve as chief of staff for a madman who clearly presented a danger to the United States and the world.

Kelly could have changed history with a tiny bit of courage. Republicans in 2018 would have forced Trump’s resignation upon hearing such words, Trump’s power had not solidified at that point to the degree it has now. Kelly chose, as one man, to keep Trump in office. Moreover, Kelly heard Trump’s thoughts in Trump’s first two years in office. Kelly knew that Hitler did not commit his worst atrocities in his first two years. At that point, Kelly would have every reason to believe that Trump might have six more years to lead the nation, by year six Hitler was committing his worst atrocities. Kelly did nothing.

The nation erupted in outrage, at least as much at Kelly as Trump. We have come to expect such things from Trump.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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