John,

In a new interview, former General and Trump’s longest-serving Chief of Staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times that Trump often praised Hitler.

According to Kelly, Trump once said, “You know, Hitler did some good things too,” and even expressed, “I need the kind of generals Hitler had.”

The Atlantic also reported that Trump raged over paying $60,000 for a fallen soldier’s funeral, exclaiming, “It doesn’t cost $60,000 to bury a f#cking Mexican!” and then instructed his Chief of Staff not to cover the bill.

These aren't just shocking revelations—they're on-the-record interviews and eyewitness accounts from a former chief of staff and military general. Praise for Hitler, a genocidal fascist. Racist and disgraceful treatment of a fallen soldier and her grieving family.

Kelly’s account goes beyond detailing unpresidential behavior. It reveals the concrete actions of a man with ambitions to turn American democracy into a fascist shadow of itself.

You’d think the legacy media would have covered this story with everything they had, right?

Wrong.

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Instead of running a headline blaring the alarming revelations from its own interview with General Kelly, The New York Times chose to lead with an unrelated article about Trump’s “scandal-plagued career” above the fold on its front page.

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Meanwhile, The Washington Post —the paper whose tagline is ironically “democracy dies in darkness”—didn’t feature the Kelly story at all. Instead, it opted for a puff piece on Republican early-voting efforts.

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For the past eight years, in the name of balance and profit, legacy media outlets have covered Trump as though he’s just another politician. Rather than consistently calling him out as the authoritarian threat he is, they’ve tried to play “both sides,” normalizing Trump to the point where, just 13 days from Election Day, a former U.S. General’s testimony that Trump praised Hitler and demeaned a fallen soldier didn’t make the front pages.

At COURIER, we’ve been clear-eyed about the threat Trump represents. Unlike the legacy media, we won’t ever sacrifice our values for clicks or profits. That’s why our coverage stands apart.

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