Harris delivered an impromptu address regarding Trump’s alleged remarks wishing that he had capable generals such as Adolf Hitler.
“While Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had,” Harris claimed, citing a recent Atlantic piece. “Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution. He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.”
Harris also claimed that if elected, Trump would use the military as “his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.”
Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg, citing two anonymous sources, alleged that while president, Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.” Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, publicly told the New York Times that he heard the comment as well.
Trump spokesman Alex Pfeiffer categorically denied the remarks.
“This is absolutely false,” he said. “President Trump never said this.”
Other details in Goldberg’s story were heavily disputed, including alleged disparaging remarks about a murdered American servicewoman, which nearly everyone related to the story denied.
