DNC hits Trump over reported praise of Hitler's generals in mobile billboard [View all]

Source: The Hill

10/24/24 6:00 AM ET


The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is deploying a mobile billboard ahead of former President Trump’s rally in Las Vegas on Thursday, hitting him over his past reported praise of Adolf Hitler’s generals. The billboard features the headline from The Atlantic, which reported that Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.” The Trump campaign has vehemently denied Trump ever made the remarks, calling the report “absolutely false.”

In a statement to The Hill, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison called Trump “a danger to democracy.” “Trump is increasingly unstable, unhinged and out for unchecked power through his Project 2025 agenda. Trump already tried to overthrow the will of Nevada once and there’s no doubt he’ll try to do it again,” Harrison said.

During an interview with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Trump’s former chief of staff, Ret. Gen. John Kelly affirmed reporting from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” which quoted Trump asking Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?”

Kelly noted to Trump that the German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off,” according to Goldberg’s account of Baker and Glasser’s reporting.

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