The American journalist and author of the book: "He has a terrible ignorance of history"
In a book to be published soon: Trump admires Hitler... and does not know who was with whom in the world war!
A Wall Street Journal journalist quotes former US President Donald Trump as saying during an official visit to France in 2018 that Adolf Hitler "did a lot of good things" in a book to be released on July 13.
And this phrase, which Trump denied that he had said, was received, according to excerpts from the book published, on Wednesday, by the former president, on the sidelines of his visit to Europe on the occasion of the centenary of the end of the First World War.
In his book, entitled "Honestly, We Won This Election," American journalist Michael Bender asserts that the former president said these positive words about Hitler during an "improvised lesson in history" given to Trump by then White House chief of staff John Kelly.
According to the book, Kelly, a former Marine in the United States, would then "remind the president on which side each country was on during the conflict" and explain to him how "World War I led to World War II, as well as about all Atrocities (committed by) Hitler".
According to the book, Kelly, who was "stunned" by what Trump said about the spot, "told the president that he was wrong, but Trump remained on his position" and proceeded to defend him by talking about the economic revival that Germany witnessed under the leadership of the Nazi Party in the 1930s.
According to the journalist, who cited this information, citing unnamed sources, the White House chief of staff responded to Trump by saying: "You can't talk positively about Adolf Hitler. Not at all."
In his book, Bender says that Trump "has a terrible ignorance of history," particularly its chapters on slavery and segregation in the United States.
During his visit to France in 2018, Trump sparked controversy when he canceled a scheduled visit to the American cemetery in the Belleau Forest, about 100 km northeast of Paris, and contains the remains of American soldiers killed during the First World War.
On that day, Trump justified his decision not to visit the cemetery by saying that the weather was not safe for him to go by helicopter, as was planned.
But the Atlantic newspaper said at the time that Trump canceled the visit because he did not see any benefit in it.
In September 2020, the newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that the former president said at the time, "Why should I go to this cemetery? It is full of losers."
According to the same source, Trump described the 1541 American soldiers who were killed in that battle at the hands of German forces as "idiots", before asking "who were the good guys" in that war.
The White House vehemently denied what The Atlantic had reported.
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