Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly give embarrassing defense of Donald Trump's reported praise for Hitler's military generals
O'Reilly: “Nobody knows what the context is”
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Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly give embarrassing defense of Donald Trump's reported praise for Hitler's military generals
Citation From the October 23, 2024, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show
BILL O'REILLY (GUEST): So the hate this week is Hitler. And there's nobody who can tell you more.
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Well, it's Hitler. The trifecta actually was in the Atlantic. It was Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.
O'REILLY: Okay, but Hitler is the main attraction. And it's all over the place because John Kelly, former chief of staff to Trump, said that Trump admired Hitler's generals, or some such. Okay.
So number one, Kelly hates Donald Trump. Everybody knows that. Kelly will admit it. He hates him. Doesn't want him to win. Number two --
HANNITY: By the way, it's not new that he said this. He's said this before.
O'REILLY: Okay, but there's no context to the conversation. So I'm on NewsNation this morning, and a guy named Richard Goodstein, I believe his name is, Democrat, comes on and he's railing about Hitler.
So after he leaves -- and I challenged Goodstein to a debate -- he'll never do it -- I said to the anchor, what's the context of the Hitler remark by General Kelly? Silence. Nobody knows what the context is. Was it a discussion about the effectiveness of the Wehrmacht during World War II? Was that the discussion? What was the discussion? No one knows. Okay.
Number two, who witnessed this, beside Kelly? No one. Okay. So you're in territory where the haters, the Trump haters take whatever they can get and throw it out as fact.