CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Stunned By ‘Remarkable’ New Trump Nazi Bombshell: ‘Had To Explain To Donald Trump Why Hitler Was Bad’

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins was stunned by the new bombshell about former President Donald Trump’s admiration for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, calling it “remarkable” that Trump had to be reminded “why Hitler was bad.”

Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly has gone on the record before with damaging revelations, but usually in print. In reporting that dropped Tuesday, Kelly is on tape recounting stunning conversations in which Trump said Hitler did “some good things,” wished his own generals were more like Hitler’s, and more.

A separate report dropped revealing Trump melted down over the cost of a slain soldier’s funeral, reportedly exclaiming “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!”

On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins opened the show with commentary on the two stories, pausing to note how “remarkable” it is that Trump’s own ex-COS says Trump “meets the definition of a fascist”:

As we come on the air tonight, with millions of voters already casting their ballots, and two weeks to go until Election Day, a major figure in the Trump White House is now speaking out. In a rare occurrence for General John Kelly, a man who chooses his words very carefully.

John Kelly, of course, was the longest-serving Chief of Staff to Donald Trump. He’s a retired Marine Corps General. And he’s now giving interviews to The Atlantic, and to The New York Times, with warnings about the President that he once served.

At one point, in his conversation with The Times, General Kelly reads the definition of a fascist, and then says this.

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JOHN KELLY, FORMER TRUMP CHIEF OF STAFF: Certainly the former President is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.

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COLLINS: I think we just have to take a moment, and pause there, to note how remarkable that is. That someone who served as a Chief of Staff to the former President of the United States, that’s a retired Marine General, is saying that the person he served meets the definition of a fascist.

Of course, that comes after we heard that the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, who was handpicked by Donald Trump, has also called him a fascist, in private.

Now, this is all coming, as Kelly, during these interviews, is also confirming reports that Trump has made admiring statements about Hitler.

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KELLY: He would, uh, he commented more than once that ‘You know, that Hitler did some good things, too.’ And of course, if you know history, again I think he’s lacking in that, but if you know what history, you know what Hitler was all about, you’d be pretty hard to make an argument that he did anything good.

REPORTER: So what would you — what would you say when he said to you that Hitler did a lot of good things?

KELLY: Well, I would tell him that, I said, you know, Sir if you, first of all you should never say that, but if you knew what… Hitler was all about from the beginning to the end, uh everything he did was in support of his racist, fascist uh life, you know, philosophy, so that nothing he did, you could argue, was good — it was certainly not done for the right reason. And uh but he would occasionally say that.

REPORTER: What would he say when you would lay that out to him?

KELLY: Eh he’d just, you know, that would be the end of the conversation usually.

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COLLINS: John Kelly saying that he had to explain to Donald Trump, why Hitler was bad.

Also, in that reporting from The Atlantic that came out, just shortly before this interview with The New York Times and John Kelly, the magazine is quoting Donald Trump, citing two people, who heard him say the quote that I’m about to read to you, as saying, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had… People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.