'Defending Nazis': Fox Host Under Fire for 'Excusing' Trump Wanting 'Hitler's Generals'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : ""He commented more than once that, 'You know, Hitler did some good things, too,'" Kelly (photo above, with Trump) told The New York Times, the AP notes.
43% : "The comments from John Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, came in interviews with both The New York Times and The Atlantic.
41% : "READ MORE: 'Charlatan' Pastor at Latino Event Lays Hands on Trump, Prays God Makes Him PresidentDaily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, who is also a co-founder Vox Media, wrote: "Now FOX NEWS is defending Nazis, because they must always have Donald Trump's back, even when he's praising Nazis.
39% : "The AP also reported, "Kelly added that Trump often fumed at any attempt to constrain his power, and that 'he would love to be' a dictator," and told The Times: "He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.
28% : READ MORE: Trump's Current Campaign Manager Shared Statements Blaming Him for J6 'Insurrection'"In his interview with The Atlantic, Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing 'German generals,' Kelly would ask if he meant 'Bismarck's generals,' referring to Otto von Bismarck, the former chancellor of the German Reich who oversaw the unification of Germany. '
25% : Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals,' Kelly recalled asking Trump.
23% : "Journalist Ahmed Baba warned: "If anyone doubts the right-wing ecosystem wouldn't fully back Trump unleashing authoritarian depravity in a second term, look no further than this clip.
19% : Kilmeade alleged that General Kelly, Trump's then-chief of staff, and Jim Mattis, Trump's Secretary of Defense, "didn't like the president, and they didn't think he deserved the job or they didn't think he was worthy of the job, and they went out of his way to make sure a lot of the things they asked him to do that they didn't like never got done.""And then you factor in the fact that he runs his own company, coming from the business world, the first one we've ever had, it's not even a public company," Kilmeade said of Trump, a real estate developer who was far from the first business owner President, "and then he obviously has frustration, and I could absolutely see him go now, 'you know what?
17% : "Republican Voters Against Trump commented: "Is @kilmeade talking about the 'Nazi or whatever' German generals who were asked by Hitler to carry out a genocide?
13% : "The Bulwark's Sam Stein added, "The spin here is that Trump is.... unaware that the Nazis were bad?"Issac Bailey, a professor of communication studies and McClatchy opinion columnist wrote: "This is one of the most damaging things Trump has done, convinced people to disregard all sensibilities in order to protect him from himself.
12% : "Donald Trump's longest-serving chief of staff is warning that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office, Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler 'did some good things,'" The Associated Press reports.

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