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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Aide tried to stop Trump praising Hitler – by telling him Mussolini was ‘great guy’

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Donald Trump campaigns in Richmond, Virginia, on 2 March 2024. Photograph: Steve Helber/AP

Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president that Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.

“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things,’” the retired marine general John Kelly told Jim Sciutto of CNN in an interview for a new book.

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