Fox host Brian Kilmeade defends Trump remarks: Trump was “maybe not fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals who were Nazis”
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Citation From the October 23, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): I will say as I mentioned last hour, you know Kelly has said — Kelly has been critical in some areas and not critical in others. He says the president, he witnessed the phone calls when he calls the people that lose their lives in battle whether it was Afghanistan or, or it's a training accident and he says the president sincerely reaches out sometimes it was taken the wrong way, which prompted General Kelly to take the podium as press secretary and talk openly about his son dying in Afghanistan, what it meant to the family, and just kind of trying to straighten everything out.
But the bottom line is if you read H.R. McMaster's book, who is critical of President Trump in some of it and not in others. He talks about how Mattis and Kelly didn't like the president and they didn't think he deserved the job or they didn't think he was worthy of the job and they went out of his way to make sure a lot of the things that he asked them to do, that they didn't like, never got done. McMaster would be frustrated. Because he couldn't get their attention, and he would say "it's not your job to rein in the president. it's your job to do what the president wants."
And then you factor in the fact that he runs his own company, coming from the business world the first one we've ever had. It's not even a public company. And then he obviously has frustration. And I can absolutely see him going, now you know what, it would be great to have German generals that actually do what we ask them to do — knowing that's a third — maybe not fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals who were Nazis and whatever.