“Trump said Hitler did a lot of good things,” says a Wall Street Journal reporter in his book

THE Adolf Hitler “He did a lot of good things,” the former US president was quoted as saying Donald Trump during his visit to France in 2018, claims a journalist of the Wall Street Journal in a book to be published on July 13.

This statement, which Trump denies, is supposed to have been made on the sidelines of his visit for the 100 years since the end of World War I. This is what Michael Bender claims in the book “Frankly, We did win this election” (excerpts, we did win the election), excerpts of which were published today.

According to APE – BPE, Bender claims that Trump made this remark during an “improvised history lesson” given to him by the then White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly. The former Marine general “reminded the president of which countries were on which side in that conflict” and cited “the events from A to II World War as well as all the atrocities” committed by Hitler.

Surprised by Trump’s counter-argument, John Kelly “told him he was wrong but Trump insisted on his position” underlining Germany’s economic recovery in the 1930s, under Nazi rule.

The journalist, citing anonymous sources, claims that the billionaire businessman’s chief of staff replied: “You can not say anything good about Adolf Hitler. In no case”.

Bender also claims that Trump has an “outrageous ignorance of history,” especially with regard to slavery and racial segregation in the United States.

Donald Trump’s trip to France at the time had sparked another scandal when the president canceled a visit to a US military cemetery near Paris, explaining that the weather was bad. But according to The Atlantic, the then US president simply did not see the reason for the visit. “Why should I go to this cemetery? It is full of losers “, he allegedly told members of his team, the newspaper wrote in September 2020, citing anonymous sources.

Trump also reportedly described the 1,541 American soldiers killed in the Battle of the Belo Forest as “idiots” and then asked “who were the good ones” in this war.

These allegations were categorically refuted by the White House.

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