Former President Donald Trump told his then-chief of staff John Kelly that “Hitler did a lot of good things,” according to a new book on the Trump presidency and his failed 2020 reelection bid.
According to Michael Bender’s “Frankly, We Did Win This Election,” due out next week, Trump was in Europe in 2018 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I when he made the comment that “stunned” Kelly.
The Guardian published the latest nugget from the book on Wednesday, reporting that, per Bender, Kelly was telling Trump “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” at the time.