Who Is John Kelly, the General Calling Trump a Hitler-Praising Fascist?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

94% : Announcing Kelly's new appointment on Twitter in July 2017, Trump called the general a "Great American" and a "Great Leader.
80% : ""John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security," Trump wrote.
71% : For his loyal efforts, Trump rewarded Kelly after just six months leading the DHS by making him his chief of staff -- replacing Reince Priebus -- a move which commentators saw as intended to bring order to the White House after months of tumult.
53% : "Less than a year after retiring from the military, Trump asked Kelly to serve as his Secretary of Homeland Security.
51% : When Trump announced on Twitter in December 2018 that Kelly would be replaced as chief of staff, he was still praising Kelly as someone "who has served our Country with distinction.
51% : "He also claimed Trump had "more than once" claimed Adolf Hitler had done "some good things.
50% : ""Being Chief of Staff just wasn't for him," Trump tweeted at the time.
43% : Kelly said he'd responded to Trump.
37% : Separately, Kelly spoke to The Atlantic about how Trump had spoken admiringly of Hitler's Nazi generals during his time in the White House.
33% : Among the most damning were comments reported by The Atlantic in 2020, in which Trump -- while president -- had privately called Marines "suckers" for getting killed.
29% : His verdict on Trump -- which alarmingly echoes that of Mark Milley, another general who served in Trump's administration -- is shaped by a yearslong personal history with the former president and decades of service.
24% : The day after a mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Kelly said he would support using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
17% : "Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations, with a campaign spokesperson claiming last year that Kelly had "totally clowned himself with these debunked stories he's made up because he didn't serve his president well while working as chief of staff.
13% : In 2023, Kelly also went on the record to confirm several stories which had previously Trump denied, including allegations that he'd disparaged American soldiers wounded and killed in combat.
11% : The report -- which cites two sources as saying that Trump once said "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had" -- included Kelly commenting on a story from the book The Divider: Trump in the White House about Trump once asking Kelly why he couldn't "be like the German generals.
10% : In an interview with The New York Times Tuesday, Kelly said that, in his view, Trump "certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure," further claiming that the GOP nominee "certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.
8% : "Since leaving Trump's administration, Kelly has been scathing about his old boss -- and Trump has returned the favor.
3% : By the spring of the following year, media reports claimed that Kelly was referring to Trump as "an idiot" (Kelly said the claims were "BS") and months later they had allegedly stopped speaking to each other altogether.
3% : After Kelly publicly criticized several of Trump's handling of several foreign and domestic policy issues at an event in February 2020, Trump spoke about how he "terminated" Kelly as his chief of staff, a move he said he "couldn't do fast enough.

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