Donald Trump now claims he isn’t a student of Adolf Hitlers work, after days of pushing anti-immigrant commentary echoing the former Nazi leader.
“Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday repeated and defended a widely criticized comment that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” dismissing criticism that his language echoed Nazi ideology by saying he was “not a student of Hitler.”
In a radio interview, the conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt asked Mr. Trump to explain his “poisoning the blood” remark and asked him multiple times to respond to those who were outraged that the phrase resembled statements made by Adolf Hitler in his hate-filled manifesto, “Mein Kampf.”
The former president said he had no racist intentions behind the statement. Then, he added, “I know nothing about Hitler. I’m not a student of Hitler. I never read his works.”” [READ MORE]
