Donald Trump has now denied ever having read Adolf Hitler’s 1925 memoir-manifesto Mein Kampf as he faces a firestorm over his recent run of anti-immigrant comments, which have been likened to the Nazi leader’s infamous “blood and soil” rhetoric.

The former president returned to the campaign trail in Waterloo, Iowa, on Tuesday evening where he doubled down on his earlier inflammatory remarks.

“It’s crazy, what’s going on. They’re ruining our country. And it’s true. They are destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They are destroying our country,” he said.

“They don’t like it when I said that,” he added, before denying browsing Hitler’s book.

“And I never read Mein Kampf. They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that’. In a much different way,” he said.

  • kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I believe him. I don’t think he’s ever read a book at all. Plenty of morons manage to be racist all by themselves.

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      1 year ago

      I believe him, he’s too much of a dumbass to remember anything he’s read in a book.

      But the people that are feeding him the garbage he spews on the other hand…