Playing It Again—The Hitler Card

Here they go again. The Dem-wing of the UniParty is so bereft of reasons to deny the GOP-wing its turn in the Oval Office that it is once again desperately playing the Hitler Card. And it gets richer still. This time it’s on the word of disgruntled ex-employee who was subjected to the “you’re fired!” treatment by the Donald— and in real life for good reason, not just on a TV show for make-pretend entertainment.

General John Kelly now says that the Donald said something positive about Adolph Hitler, but we don’t know whether the General is looking for a book deal or gig as a CNN military consultant to augment his $200,000+ per year military pension. But we do wonder why five years after getting defenestrated in the White House by the Donald that his memory of detailed conversations has suddenly come alive just days before the election—especially when no other insider has confirmed his account on the record or leaked it years ago.

After all, during his first time at the rodeo the Donald had no idea of what he was doing or who the 4,000 appointees were that were foisted upon him by the GOP machine and its beltway and Deep State allies. So 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the giant block buildings within a few square miles were crawling with people who had minimum low regard for Trump.

And yet and yet. Even our trusty AI-researcher, Copilot, can’t find any record of another named official validating Kelly’s account.

John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, is the most prominent figure to have publicly stated that he heard Trump make such comments123. Other former officials have also expressed concerns about Trump’s remarks and behavior, but specific instances of others hearing him praise Hitler have not been widely documented.

Still, consider the context of this latest 11th hour imbroglio. It wasn’t just the usual effort by the New York Times to sabotage a GOP candidate on election eve by giving a forum to Kelly after he spent several years in the wilderness being ignored. What kicked off the latest firestorm was a screed in the Atlantic Magazine by its detestable editor and Deep State spin doctor, Jeffrey Goldberg.

It’s plain as day that Goldberg has a rancorous grudge against the Donald owing to his irreverent belittling of the late St. John McCain. Yet that surely tells you something. John McCain was among the most belligerent, blood-thirsty neocons to grace the Washington stage since the end of the cold war. At the end of the day, the disaster of Iraq and the utter calamity in Ukraine, among others, were his doing.

So what we have, therefore, is the once and former Peace Party valorizing warmongers like John McCain and a passel of retired generals who collectively have done more to undermine the US constitution than the Donald might think of doing in a month of Sundays. In this context, Kelly saw it all—got his promotions and ribbons—as he participated in Washington’s unnecessary and undeclared (and therefore unconstitutional) wars in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Ukraine and countless lesser fry.

Did Kelly ever once blow a whistle as he shimmied his way up the ladder to a general’s big fat retirement package? Yet by any rational standard the deeds of his 45-year long career in the midst of every wrong-headed Washington war going back to Vietnam were a far greater offense to constitutional democracy than the alleged back-stage utterances of a loud-mouthed Donald Trump.