CNN’s Jim Acosta interviewed The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols on Wednesday to discuss the latest bombshell revelations from Gen. John Kelly and the impact on the 2024 race.
“This morning, the Trump campaign is vehemently denying a stunning and damning report in The Atlantic. The magazine cites two sources claiming to have heard the former president say he wanted the kind of generals that Hitler had during private White House conversations,” Acosta began, adding:
Trump’s former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, confirms the report. And Kelly tells The York Times that he does not take lightly Trump’s recent comments on using the US military against his political rivals.
“I think there’s this issue of using the military to go after American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing. Even to say it for political purposes to get elected is a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it,” Kelly is then heard on tape saying.
“They’re not strong enough because they’re not made to deal with somebody like Donald Trump. We already saw that in his first term,” Nichols replied, adding:
You know, one of the great myths around Trump at this point is that we got through four years and it was fine. We weren’t fine. Trump really assaulted the Constitution. He tried to overthrow an election. He tried to undermine our constitutional order. He tried to assault the rule of law. And in a lot of cases, he got away with it and he’s still getting away with it. The guardrails in American political life are agreements.
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