Former US President Donald Trump yesterday rejected any comparison with Adolf Hitler, guaranteeing that he had never read “Mein Kampf”, after being criticized for stating that migrants were “poisoning the blood” of the States United
“It is true that they are destroying the blood of our country, that is what they are doing, and they are destroying our country”, declared the former president. Trump is running for reelection in 2024 during a campaign event Tuesday night in Iowa.
Donald Trump had already made similar statements about migrants over the weekend, provoking scandalized reactions, with some seeing this as an allusion to comments made by Adolf Hitler in the anti-Semitic book “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle).
“They don’t like it when I say that,” Trump commented to his supporters. “They say ‘Oh, Hitler said that’, but in a very different way”, he defended, finishing:
“I’ve never read ‘Mein Kampf’”. An account affiliated with Joe Biden’s campaign team, however, published a montage on Wednesday afternoon, comparing three quotes from Donald Trump with those from the Nazi dictator.
“This is not a coincidence”, reads the caption of the publication. The increasingly violent rhetoric of Donald Trump, well ahead in the polls for the Republican primaries, puts his party’s leaders in a highly uncomfortable situation.
Starting with the Senate’s Republican tenor, Mitch McConnell, who publicly denounced the former president’s statements on Tuesday.
In mid-November, Donald Trump also compared his political opponents to “worms”, Joe Biden’s campaign team then accused him of “imitating the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini”.
During his first presidential election campaign in 2015, Donald Trump had already shocked people with his comments about “violating” illegal migrants.
He then promised to build a huge wall along the 3,000 kilometers of border that separates Mexico from the USA to prevent migrants from entering American soil, however, a project that never came to fruition.