Former North American president Donald Trump on Thursday rejected any comparison with Adolf Hitler and guaranteed that he had never read ‘Mein Kampf’, after being criticized for stating that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States.
“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, candidate for re-election in 2024, during a campaign event between Tuesday night and Friday in Iowa.
Donald Trump had already made similar statements about immigrants over the weekend, sparking disapproving reactions, with some seeing it as an allusion to comments made by Adolf Hitler in the anti-Semitic book Mein Kampf. [A minha luta].
“They don’t like it when I say that,” Trump told his supporters.
“They say ‘Oh, Hitler said that’, but in a very different way,” he defended himself, finishing: “I’ve never read ‘Mein Kampf’.”
However, an account affiliated with Joe Biden’s campaign posted a montage Wednesday afternoon comparing three quotes from Donald Trump to those from the Nazi dictator.
“This is not a coincidence,” the post’s caption reads.
The increasingly violent rhetoric of Donald Trump, far ahead in the polls ahead of the Republican primaries, places his party’s leaders in a very uncomfortable situation.
Starting with the Republican tenor in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who on Tuesday publicly denounced the former president’s statements.
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 campaign for the 2015 presidential election, Donald Trump had already surprised people with his comments about “raping” illegal immigrants.
He then promised to build a huge wall along the three thousand kilometers of border that separates Mexico from the United States to prevent migrants from entering American soil. A project that never came to fruition.
Source: TSF
