Published: 9 July 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Remark shocked chief of staff John Kelly, says author; separate book says Trump called Netanyahu’s congratulations to Biden ‘an ultimate betrayal’
Trump told chief of staff Hitler ‘did a lot of good things’, book says (Guardian)
Remark shocked John Kelly, author Michael Bender reports; book details former president’s ‘stunning disregard for history’
EXCLUSIVE: Trump called Netanyahu’s congratulations to Biden ‘an ultimate betrayal,’ new book claims (Forward)
Former President Donald Trump resented that Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister he had forged a close relationship with, congratulated Joe Biden upon his electoral victory, according to a new book by journalist Michael Wolff.
“It was startling to aides, however much they were anticipating an eruption, that Trump’s wrath fell on Bibi Netanyahu,” Wolff writes in his third book on the Trump presidency, titled “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” a copy of which was obtained by the Forward.
Trump reportedly praised Hitler for doing ‘a lot of good things' (Haaretz)
According to new book by a WSJ reporter, Trump was told by his chief of staff during 2018 visit to Europe that he 'cannot ever say anything supportive of Adolf Hitler’
Photo: Donald Trump, left, and John Kelly in New London, Connecticut in 2017 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
