James Mattis, a four star general, Trump's own secretary of defense, agrees with him. His chief of staff, a four star general, John Kelly, said, he's the most flawed human being he'd ever met. And Today it's been reported that Donald Trump said, I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. Don't be the frog in the boiling water and think, this is okay. As a 24 year veteran of our military, that makes me sick as hell, and it should make you sick. (20:12–20:20)
CLAIM
Asserts that Trump expressed a desire for generals like those of Adolf Hitler.
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