Donald Trump polls: This October surprise should sway the election. Will it?

On Tuesday, the New York Times and the Atlantic each published stories about Donald Trump’s history of denigrating rank-and-file members of the military and complaints that “his” generals, when he was president, resisted his efforts to use the armed services for his own political and personal benefit. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.” The Atlantic piece also purports to confirm previous reporting about Trump’s habit of complaining that American generals aren’t as loyal as the military leaders in Hitler’s Germany: As his presidency drew to a close, and in the years since, he has become more and more interested in the advantages of dictatorship, and the absolute control over the military that he believes it would deliver. Here’s Fox News: Fox host Brian Kilmeade justifies Trump wanting German generals Kilmeade: I can absolutely see him go it'd be great to have German generals that actually do what we ask them to do, maybe not fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals who were Nazis or whatever pic.twitter.com/6lpjH6foEk — Lis Power October 23, 2024 He wasn’t cognizant of the connection between Hitler’s military and Nazism? And Scott Jennings, who has become CNN’s go-to Trump defender: Scott Jennings on CNN just dismissed this by saying “if you’re worried about Hitler there are thousands of Hitlers running around college campuses” https://t.co/NKfNtKXKCS — Aidan McLaughlin October 23, 2024 This is a reference to pro-Palestine rhetoric, presumably, but whatever—thousands of Hitlers!