Published December 24, 2023
Former President Donald Trump defended anti-immigrant comments he made earlier this week that critics said echoed racist sentiments of Adolf Hitler — saying Friday he knows nothing about the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party and is “not a student of Hitler.”
In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt Friday, Trump was asked about comments he made at a recent rally in New Hampshire where he said illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
“First of all, I know nothing about Hitler. I’m not a student of Hitler. I never read his works,” Trump said to Hewitt. “They say that he said something about blood. He didn’t say it the way I said it, either, by the way. It’s a very different kind of a statement. What I’m saying when I talk about people coming into our country is they are destroying our country.”
At a campaign stop in Iowa, he said he has not read “Mein Kampf,” the manifesto written by Hitler that provided the philosophical basis for Nazi Germany and, ultimately, the murder of more than 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
Trump reiterated that he hadn’t read the manifesto during his conversation with Hewitt, saying that he “never knew that Hitler said it.”
“I never knew that Hitler said it, either, by the way. And I never read ‘Mein Kampf.’ They said I read ‘Mein Kampf.’ These are people that are disinformation, horrible people that we’re dealing with. I never read ‘Mein Kampf,'” he said.
Hewitt then posed, “So you intend no racist sentiment whatsoever when you say ‘poisoning our blood?'”
“Dear, no,” Trump shot back.
Yet still, Trump continued to claim undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.”
“When you look at it, and you look at what’s coming in, we have, from all over the world, not one group, they’re coming in from Asia, from Africa, from South America…” he said.
“That’s poisoning the blood of our country. And that’s what’s happening. And we’re not talking about a specific group. We’re talking about, these are, this is equal opportunity. They’re coming from all over the world, and we have no idea who they are, where they are.”
Trump claimed he had no idea where the origins of the phrase came from until he saw it on the news.
“I have no idea what Hitler said other than I’ve seen on the news. And that’s a very entirely different thing than what I’m saying. They’re pouring, they’re destroying our country. They’re coming in from every continent, and we have no idea, we have no idea who they are, what they represent,” Trump said.
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SOURCE: www.abc30.com
RELATED: Biden Brags of Being a Bipartisan Unifier as His Campaign Compares Trump to Hitler and Democrats Work to Get Him Removed From the Ballot
Published December 24, 2023
Joe Biden recently published a tweet in which he patted himself on the back for being a bipartisan unifier. Yes, really.
The guy who regularly casts half of the country as a threat to democracy, while using the DOJ to go after his political opponent, who he has compared to Hitler, thinks he is a unifier.
The same guy who supports his opponent being removed from the ballot in Colorado thinks he is a bipartisan leader. Take a look:
Here’s the great unifier. From Politico:
Biden camp posts graphic with Trump pictured next to Hitler
President Joe Biden’s campaign on Wednesday posted a graphic directly comparing former president Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, replete with images of the two men on each side.
The graphic, shared in a post on X, marks an even more aggressive turn in a highly charged attempt by the Biden campaign to link its likely Republican general election opponent with the Nazi leader. And it foreshadows how central the attack line is likely to be as part of the president’s efforts to win reelection.
Under the banner “TRUMP PARROTS HITLER,” the graphic lists three quotes from the 45th president next to those from Nazi leader. “Immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’” read one Trump quote. Below it read a partial quote from Hitler: “’Contamination of the blood’ by ‘an inferior race’ will lead to the fall of Germany.”
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Why Biden’s campaign keeps linking Trump to Hitler
The Biden campaign warns that Trump’s rhetoric — from “vermin” to “poisoned” blood — could reflect history repeating.
Joe Biden’s team has been ramping up attacks on Donald Trump as it barrels toward a likely rematch with him. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Published December 19, 2023
In most situations, comparing a political opponent to Adolf Hitler might seem like an extraordinary step. For Joe Biden’s campaign, it has become part of the routine of running against Donald Trump.
When the former president said that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” during a New Hampshire rally on Saturday, a Biden campaign aide charged with monitoring Trump immediately circulated the comments to staffers, according to senior officials.
Within hours, the campaign released a statement attacking Trump for having “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.”
It was the fourth time in the past six weeks that Biden’s campaign has likened Trump’s remarks to Hitler’s in written statements and probably not the last. The president’s team has been ramping up attacks on Trump as it barrels toward a likely rematch with him, and historians say that Trump’s recent comments about immigrants — as well as those likening his political foes to “vermin” — have echoed Hitler’s words.
Biden’s more aggressive posture also underscores that threats to democracy remain at the core of his messaging push even as he tries to simultaneously persuade voters that he is best equipped to handle the economy. It’s similar to the strategy Democrats successfully employed in the 2022 midterms — and a throughline that senior campaign officials said dates back to Trump’s response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., which inspired Biden’s own presidential run.
“Every time he says it, we are going to call it out,” said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director. “He’s going to echo the rhetoric of Hitler and Mussolini, and we’re going to make sure that people understand just how serious that is every single time.”
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SOURCE: www.politico.com
