Obama slams Trump's reported comments about Hitler's generals

 Former President Barack Obama on Friday argued against reelecting former President Donald Trump, pointing to warnings from the Republican nominee’s former military leaders about a second term and Trump’s reported remarks that he wants US generals to be as loyal to him as those who served Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

“Some of you, I’m sure, read or saw some of the people who know Donald Trump best have been saying in no uncertain terms that he should not be president again. These are not liberal Democrats. These aren’t ‘woke folks.’ These are people who worked with him, worked for him,” Obama said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the Harris campaign.

“The other day, General John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, said that Trump told him he wanted his generals to be like Hitler’s generals. Now I said this yesterday – in politics, a good rule of thumb is, don’t say you want to do anything like him,” he said, referring to reporting in The Atlantic that Trump wished his military personnel showed him the same deference Hitler’s Nazi generals did.

Along with Kelly, Obama also mentioned other senior military leaders who served under Trump and have spoken out against a second Trump term, including former Defense Secretary James Mattis and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.

He argued that Trump “doesn’t see being commander in chief as a solemn, sacred responsibility,” but like “everything else, he thinks the military exist to do his bidding, to serve his interests.”

Obama also called on supporters to vote for Democratic state attorney general Josh Stein for governor and criticized his Republican rival Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.