“He said, Hitler did some good things”: Ex-chief of staff says Trump praised Hitler in White House

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Former President Donald Trump praised German dictator Adolf Hitler while in the White House, former chief of staff John Kelly told CNN. Trump repeatedly praised authoritarian leaders while serving as president, Kelly and other former senior advisers told CNN’s Jim Sciutto. Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the former aides said. But his most unnerving praise was for Hitler. “He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy?...