A hit piece published Tuesday in The Atlantic featured a claim from former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly that Trump had praised Adolf Hitler’s generals.
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg highlighted Kelly’s claims, which he alleges happened more than four years ago. It’s a recycled claim from a 2022 book by New York Times reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser, titled “The Divider: Trump in the White House.” The pair wrote in the book that Trump had asked Kelly, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?”
The Atlantic hit piece also included a smear from unnamed sources that has been dismissed by on-the-record sources present at the meeting in question, as The Daily Wire reported.
Readers may also recognize Glasser’s name from her New Yorker article falsely claiming Trump made up a story about Vice President…
