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BumRushDaShow

(142,269 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 08:46 AM Oct 24

DNC hits Trump over reported praise of Hitler's generals in mobile billboard

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.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/4950488-dnc-trump-praise-hitlers-generals-mobile-billboard/



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DNC hits Trump over reported praise of Hitler's generals in mobile billboard (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 24 OP
Weren't they hung after Nuremberg? Srkdqltr Oct 24 #1
No certainly not all of them EX500rider Oct 24 #4
22 were tried , 11 death sentences 3 acquitted the rest had prison sentences. Srkdqltr Oct 24 #5
Well I'd say out of 3,000 of them most of them actually did get off EX500rider Oct 24 #7
Hitler's Generals really tried to kill him in several plots. gordianot Oct 24 #2
He really wants the genitals that Hitler had. He is in to that. twodogsbarking Oct 24 #3
All those hallucinatory drugs he's taking will be his "downfall" usonian Oct 24 #6

EX500rider

(11,467 posts)
4. No certainly not all of them
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 09:26 AM
Oct 24

Germany had over 3,000 General officers in World War II

Only 10 Germans were hung at the Nuremberg trials

Srkdqltr

(7,659 posts)
5. 22 were tried , 11 death sentences 3 acquitted the rest had prison sentences.
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 10:18 AM
Oct 24

The point I was making is most did not get off free after the war. Of course they never dreamed they would be charged.

EX500rider

(11,467 posts)
7. Well I'd say out of 3,000 of them most of them actually did get off
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 11:24 AM
Oct 24

Not all the 22 who were tried were even generals

usonian

(13,786 posts)
6. All those hallucinatory drugs he's taking will be his "downfall"
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 11:00 AM
Oct 24


Not to mention excess hamberders and his next upcoming copycat stunt.

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