Did Donald Trump praise Hitler? What we know

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : "At one 2016 rally in Orlando, Trump asked his supporters to raise their right arm and pledge to vote for him.
34% : When Kelly replied that German generals "tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off" Trump reportedly replied: "No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him.
31% : "Still in 2016, JD Vance, now Trump's running mate, reportedly sent a text to a friend saying: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a****** like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler.
28% : Trump has denied this claim and hit back saying the threat to U.S. democracy comes from another Democratic administration.
25% : Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser said in their 2022 book The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 that Trump had asked Kelly "why can't you be like the German generals?"
14% : The accusations come as polling analysis suggests the 2024 presidential election remains a nail-biter, with website FiveThirtyEight giving Democratic candidate Kamala Harris a 1.7-point lead over Trump in its latest polling average published on Tuesday.

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