Kelly, a former Marine general who also served as Trump’s homeland security secretary, spoke to both The Atlantic and The New York Times about his concerns, saying he was motivated to go on the record after Trump suggested he’d use military force against his domestic political enemies.

Retired General John Kelly disclosed private conversations from Trump’s time in the White House, in which Trump allegedly said that he needed “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”

Former President Donald Trump's one-time chief of staff retired Marine Gen. John Kelly told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg more details about the infamous exchange in which he demanded Kelly act more like the generals for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.