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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Trump says on Joe Rogan podcast his biggest White House mistake was hiring ‘disloyal people’

Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Traverse City, Michigan, on Friday after his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Traverse City, Michigan, on Friday after his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

Donald Trump sat down for three hours on Friday with Joe Rogan, telling the US’s most-listened-to podcaster that the biggest mistake he made during his presidency was hiring “disloyal people”.

Those comments – which also described “neocons”, or neoconservatives who generally aim to promote democracy, as “bad people” – came days after the Trump White House’s former chief of staff John Kelly said the Republican nominee in the 5 November election met the definition of a fascist. Kelly also said Trump had no understanding of the US constitution and made admiring statements about generals commanded by Adolf Hitler, whose regime systematically murdered 6 million Jews as part of the Holocaust during the second world war.

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