{"id":184724,"date":"2024-10-23T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=184724"},"modified":"2024-10-23T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:26:12","slug":"kamala-says-trump-wants-unlimited-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=184724","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Says Trump Wants Unlimited Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Vice President Kamala Harris called out former President Donald Trump for saying he wanted U.S. military generals to behave like Nazi leader Adolph Hilter\u2019s generals \u2014 who Trump believes demonstrated unquestioning loyalty to their leader.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Ev7UkQLicM\" title=\"WATCH: Harris warns Trump wants unchecked power\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution. &#8230; He wants a military who will be loyal to him, personally &#8212; one that will obey his orders, even when he tells them to break the law or abandon to their oath to the Constitution of the United States,\u201d she said Wednesday at her vice-presidential residence on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory. \u201cIt is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans. All of this is further evidence into who Donald Trump really is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s reported comments were shared by John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who served Trump as both Homeland Security secretary and White House chief of staff from 2017-2019, and published in The Atlantic magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me that when Trump raised the subject of \u2018German generals,\u2019 Kelly responded by asking, \u2018Do you mean Bismarck\u2019s generals?\u2019 He went on: \u2019I mean, I knew he didn\u2019t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, \u201cDo you mean the kaiser\u2019s generals? Surely you can\u2019t mean Hitler\u2019s generals? And he said, \u2018Yeah, yeah, Hitler\u2019s generals.\u2019 I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler.&#8217; Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel,\u201d Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic and the moderator of Washington Week with The Atlantic, reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nWatch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Vice President Kamala Harris called out former President Donald Trump for saying he wanted U.S. military generals to behave like Nazi leader Adolph Hilter\u2019s generals \u2014 who Trump believes demonstrated unquestioning loyalty to their leader. \u201cDonald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution. 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