CNN Anchor Jake Tapper Fires Back at Fox Host’s Stunning Quote Defending Trump Over Nazi Generals

Tommy ChristopherOct 23rd, 2024, 2:04 pm
 

CNN anchor Jake Tapper fired back at Brian Kilmeade with the Fox News host’s own words, highlighting part of a stunning segment defending former President Donald Trump’s reported praise for Nazi generals. Other media and political figures joined in.

In reporting that dropped Tuesday, former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly is on tape recounting stunning conversations in which Trump said Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did “some good things” and wished his own generals were more like Hitler’s, and calling Trump a fascist.

On Wednesday’s edition of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade and his co-hosts spent several minutes and several segments defending Trump over the reporting — but Kilmeade offered what he considered a reasonable “context” for the remarks that included some stunning turns of phrase and a premise that was equally shocking:

But the bottom line is, if you read McMaster’s book, who is critical of President Trump in some of it and not in others, he talks about how Mattis and Kelly didn’t like the president and they didn’t think he deserved the job or they didn’t think he was worthy of the job.

And they went out of his way to make sure a lot of the things they asked him to do that they didn’t like never got done.

McMaster would be frustrated because he couldn’t get their attention and he would say, “It’s not your job to rein in the president. It’s your job to do what the president wants.”.

And then you factor in the fact he runs his own company coming from the business world, the first one we’ve ever had. It’s not even a public company.

And then he’s obviously has frustration and I could absolutely see him go “Now, you know what? It’ll be great to have German generals that actually do what we asked them to do,” knowing that’s a thi– maybe not fully under — fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals who were Nazis or whatever.

But he was frustrated with the, with the slow down of commands that weren’t implemented.

Tapper keyed in on one such phrase, reposting the clip on X/Twitter with the simple caption “German generals who were Nazis or whatever.”

Media and political figures — including Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign — ridiculed the idea that the best defense of Trump is that he didn’t know Nazis are radioactive:

Watch above via Fox & Friends.

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