Trump AGAIN says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ as he denies reading Hitler’s’ ‘Mein Kampf’ despite using language by dictator in recent speeches

By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com[1]

Published: 06:57, 20 December 2023 | Updated: 12:31, 20 December 2023

Former President Donald Trump[2] doubled down on his controversial comments claiming immigrants were ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ before denying he’d ever read Mein Kampf after comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

Trump said migrants from ‘all over the world’ are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ [3]– a phrase similar to Hitler – at a Saturday rally in New Hampshire[4].

The statement left Republicans disgusted and angered over the ex-president quoting Russian President Vladimir Putin along with other authoritarian leaders. [5][6]

Speaking on Tuesday at an Iowa[7] campaign rally, Trump addressed the comments and reiterated he meant what he said but denied any comparisons to the leader of the Third Reich.

‘You know, when they let- I think the real number’s like 15, 16 million people into our country, when they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,’ he said.

Former President Donald Trump doubled down on his controversial comments claiming immigrants were ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ before denying he’d ever read Mein Kampf after comparisons to Adolf Hitler

‘It’s crazy what’s going on.

They’re ruining our country. And it’s true. They’re destroying the blood of our country.

That’s what they’re doing. They’re destroying our country,’ Trump added.

He then immediately made reference to the controversy he’d caused across the political spectrum.

‘They don’t like it when I said that, and I never read Mein Kampf. They said, “Oh, Hitler said that” – in a much different way.

Now they’re coming from all over the world. People all over the world. We have no idea,’ he said.

‘They could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy.

They could bring in disease that’s gonna catch on in our country. But they do bring in crime. But they have them coming from all over the world.’

The phrasing has been compared to the following one in Mein Kampf: ‘All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.’

Several lawmakers recoiled at the former president saying migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ as part of remarks made during a rally in New Hampshire[8] on Saturday.

Sen.

Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said, ‘I think it’s unhelpful rhetoric,’ according to a Hill report[9]. And fellow Senate GOP[10] leadership member Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said she ‘obviously’ doesn’t agree with his language.

‘We’re all children of immigrants,’ the West Virginia[11] Republican said. ‘It’s just part of his campaign rhetoric, I guess.

I don’t know, I can’t explain it.’

Trump said migrants from ‘all over the world’ are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ – a phrase similar to Hitler – at a Saturday rally in New Hampshire

Republicans aren’t feeling warm and fuzzy about former President Donald Trump’s recent rally comments where he used the words of Adolf Hitler to talk about migrants

During the New Hampshire rally, Trump also quoted Putin by claiming President Joe Biden is a ‘threat to democracy.’

‘Even Vladimir Putin… says that Biden’s, and this is a quote, politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy,’ the ex-president said.

Putin made the comments at an economic forum in Russia in September.

Asked about Trump citing Putin in arguments against the slew of criminal charges against him, Capito said: ‘I can’t be accountable for what he says.’

On the other end, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that he doesn’t care what sort of language Trump uses because his policies were more effective than Biden’s in quelling the southern border crisis.

Speaking at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday, Trump used a phrase that also appeared in Hitler’ 1925 manifesto Mein Kampf and also quoted Vladimir Putin to defend himself against the 91 felony charges against him

While Senate[12] Republican Whip John Thune (R-Ky.) says Trump’s rhetoric crossed the line, he still thinks Biden has failed to do anything to adequately address surging illegal immigration.

‘My grandfather was an immigrant so I don’t agree with that sentiment,’ the No.

2 ranking Senate Republican said.

‘We are a nation of immigrants, we’re a welcoming country, but we’re also a nation of laws,’ he added. ‘We can’t allow this just rampant violation of law at the Southern border. It’s out of control.

It’s insane.

‘We’re not enforcing the rule of law in our country and I think it’s wrong and it sends all the wrong signals to the rest of the world,’ Thune concluded.

Trump’s latest rally, where he also praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as well as Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orban, gave Democrats more ammunition as the ex-president also faces 91 felony counts in Washington, D.C., Miami and New York.

‘Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,’ a spokesperson for Biden’s reelection campaign said.

Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) pushed back on those critical of Donald Trump ‘s language when describing illegal immigrants, claiming he’s more worried about actions.

‘You know, we’re talking about language,’ he told NBC News Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. ‘I could (sic) care less what language people use as long as we get it right.’

‘You know, I think the president has a way of talking, sometimes, I disagree with,’ Graham added. ‘But he actually delivered on the border.’

‘People are looking for results. If the only thing you want to talk about on immigration is the way Donald Trump talks, you’re missing a lot.’

An interview with former President Donald Trump’s late first wife, where she claims he owned a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches and kept it at his bedside, is resurfacing after Trump said migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’

This isn’t the first time Trump has been likened to authoritarian leaders – he even suggested in an interview earlier this month he would rule like a dictator, but only on ‘day one’ of a second term.

Multiple outlets have also dragged up a Vanity Fair profile from 1990[13] where Ivana, Trump’s wife at the time, told her lawyer that Donald kept My New Order near his bed, which is a book of Hitler’s speeches.

Trump denied the accusation.

‘[W]hen he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke,’ Marie Brenner, reporting for the magazine, wrote.

She later quoted Trump as responding to the accusation saying: ‘If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.’

Hitler is one of the most prolific dictator’s in history, rising to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Fuhrer und Reichskanzler in 1934.

He later led Germany into World War II and orchestrated the Holocaust, killing 6million Jews.

References

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   Lepore For Dailymail.Com (www.dailymail.co.uk)

2. ^ Donald Trump (www.dailymail.co.uk)
3. ^ migrants from ‘all over the world’ are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ (www.dailymail.co.uk)
4. ^ New Hampshire (www.dailymail.co.uk)
5. ^ left Republicans disgusted (www.dailymail.co.uk)
6. ^ Putin (www.dailymail.co.uk)
7. ^ Iowa (www.dailymail.co.uk)
8. ^ New Hampshire (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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11. ^ Virginia (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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13. ^ Vanity Fair profile from 1990 (archive.vanityfair.com)