In case you missed it:
To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hitler “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term should he win November’s presidential election, multiple former senior advisers told CNN.
Hitler did some good things, according to Donald Trump.
CNN has a little more - from former Trump chief of staff, Gen John Kelly:
Trump allegedly reserved some of his most unnerving praise for Hitler, who led Nazi Germany during World War II.
“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing,’” Kelly recounted. “I mean, Mussolini was a great guy in comparison.”
“It’s pretty hard to believe he missed the Holocaust, though, and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theater,” Kelly told me. “But I think it’s more, again, the tough guy thing.”
Oh yea - on the very same day, this happened in our very own Pennsylvania:
This is the memo announcing the proposed legislation.
In the near future, I will introduce legislation to ensure that all schools in Pennsylvania offer age-appropriate education on the Holocaust.
We are almost 80 years from the end of the Holocaust. Most of those who were alive to witness those horrors have now sadly passed on.
Now more than ever, it’s important for future generations to learn about the genocide which resulted in the deaths of over six million Jews.
Does PA State Senator Doug Mastriano not know that Donald Trump thinks Hitler did some good things?
And now that the truth has come to light, what does Doug think of the former president now?
Any comment for the blog, Senator?
