Much criticized for having claimed that migrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States, Donald Trump rejected any comparison with Adolf Hitler, claiming to have “never read Mein Kampf”.
“It’s true that they are destroying the blood of our country, that’s what they are doing, and they are destroying our country,” said the former president, a candidate for re-election in 2024, during an event campaign Tuesday evening in Iowa.
Donald Trump had already made similar statements on migrants over the weekend, provoking scandalized reactions, with some seeing it as an allusion to comments made by Adolf Hitler in the anti-Semitic work “Mein Kampf”.
“They don’t like it when I say that,” the billionaire commented to his supporters. “They say ‘Oh Hitler said that’, but in a very different way,” he defended.
And brushes it off: “I have 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 to those of the Nazi dictator.
“This is not a coincidence,” said the Biden camp in the caption of the publication.
The increasingly violent rhetoric of Donald Trump, well ahead in the polls for the Republican primaries, places his party leaders in a highly uncomfortable situation.
Starting with the Republican tenor of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who publicly denounced the former president’s remarks on Tuesday.
In mid-November, Donald Trump also compared his political opponents to “vermin”. 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 presidential election, in 2015, Donald Trump had already shocked people with his comments about “rapist” illegal migrants.
He then promised to build a huge wall along the 3,000 kilometers of border that separates Mexico from the United States to prevent migrants from entering American soil. A project that never came to fruition.
