General John Kelly worked for Donald Trump for nearly two years. He ran the Department of Homeland Security and soon after became the White House Chief of Staff--a job he did for a year and a half. 

During that time, tensions between the general and Trump escalated, and Trump finally forced him out. Technically, he was not "fired," but for all intents and purposes, he was. Few people actually get "fired" in politics; they "spend more time with their family."

If I were the Trump team I'd say, "Okay, so the claim is John Kelly heard that Trump wants to be Hitler and then continued to work for Trump and forgot to mention it until years later, two weeks before the election?"

Because that immediately sounds like bullshit to normies.

— Sunny (@sunnyright) October 23, 2024

It has been nearly six years since Trump and Kelly worked together, and during that time, both men have been highly critical of each other. Kelly has also been the source of some of the more scurrilous attacks on the former president. Trump has called Kelly dumb, which seems unlikely but very Trump, and Kelly has said a lot of very nasty things about Trump's attitude toward the military. 

In a post Truth Social post last year, Trump called Kelly "the dumbest of my Military people," adding that Kelly was "incapable of doing a good job, it was too much for him, and I couldn't stand the guy, so I fired him like a 'dog.'"

As far as I know, the nastiest things Trump really has said about the military have been directed at Kelly himself, for whom Trump obviously has contempt. By all accounts, Trump treats rank-and-file military members well, just as he treats all working-class people well. 

Democrats Explain Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot https://t.co/qI3TQ53yZN pic.twitter.com/lCXjKRaDV2

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 23, 2024

It's the elites toward which he aims his fire. And it is the elites who aim their fire at him, often using hoaxes. The Steele Dossier, the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA hoax, the "fine people" hoax, the inject bleach hoax, the 51 intelligence agents hoax... It has been hoaxes all the way down. All day, every day the transnational elites perpetrate hoaxes aimed at discrediting Donald Trump. It is what they do. 

This is a statement from someone who works directly for Kelly pic.twitter.com/3nQYS0KrgW

— Page Buffington (@pagebuffington2) October 23, 2024

What Kelly has said about Trump's admiration for Hitler is an obvious hoax. Beyond question, it is a hoax, and here is how both you and I can know that:

John Kelly, a general, worked for Donald Trump for two years. If Trump had ever said such a thing, he would have immediately resigned. If he stayed after hearing such despicable things he would perhaps be even worse than he seems right now. 

John Kelly was so shocked at how much Trump admired Hitler that he forgot about it for 5 years and conveniently remembered 2 weeks before the election.

Got it.

— Michael J. Morrison (@OfficeOfMike) October 23, 2024

Are we to believe that General Kelly, a man who served as a Marine for 45 years, was perfectly OK working with a man who admired Hitler? That he was so unalarmed that he kept this secret for 5 years and finally, after all that time, just decided to drop that tidbit two weeks from an election?

I just did a search of Jon Karl’s book that extensively covered John Kelly’s term as WH chief of staff. There is no mention of Kelly ever discussing Trump’s admiration of Hitler. But there’s lots of doozies about Kelly’s open contempt for the president: pic.twitter.com/PV58XOxqJL

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) October 23, 2024

Really?

Trump’s alleged “Hitler” remarks must have disturbed John Kelly so badly that he decided to sit on them for 5.5 years, only to discuss them 13 days until a presidential election. 🤔pic.twitter.com/lZ0tfUXzb3

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) October 23, 2024

Or, perhaps, we might believe that a man who rose to the heights of power and prestige is angry at being disparaged by a man who he considers beneath him socially and intellectually. He has aligned himself with people who are determined, no matter what the cost, to stop Donald Trump. Is it possible that this is just one more hoax to achieve that goal?

I know what I think. And I know what everybody who is honest with themselves should think. 

The Trump-Hitler story is a psyop.

I mean that literally, not figuratively. It’s a military-grade, multi-stage psychological operation, engineered to re-energize demoralized Harris supporters and—through stigmatization—reduce turnout among Trump supporters.

Here’s how it works:… pic.twitter.com/SPZeydSyUO

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) October 24, 2024

It is a desperate play. A hoax. A new Steele Dossier. 

Literally Hitler. pic.twitter.com/IJ31Nlgak9

— Starship Alves (@StarshipAlves) October 23, 2024

After all, your evidence for this slander is thin and self-contradictory: one man says this when EVERYBODY around Trump denies it wholeheartedly. 

Either that man is lying, or he is a moral monster who knowingly worked for a Nazi. 

So your star witness is a man who admits he would work for a Nazi. Good luck with that. 

If you believe his story, you are a sucker and a loser. 

Worst Nazi Ever pic.twitter.com/hErdnq3YKR

— Dustin 🇺🇸 (@Deplorablemoo) October 24, 2024