Former President Donald Trump has doubled down on his controversial comments that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” while denying that he drew his ideas from Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”
The Republican presidential primary front-runner used his final campaign rally Tuesday to address the growing backlash sparked by his comments at a weekend event.
“It’s crazy what’s happening,” he said in his final speech to about 1,000 MAGA supporters in Waterloo, Iowa.
“They are ruining our country. And it’s true. “They are destroying the lifeblood of our country,” he said, accusing immigrants of bringing crime and even disease across the border.
“That’s what they’re doing. “They are destroying our country.”
Trump, 77, however, denied reports that his rhetoric appeared to be inspired by Hitler’s manifesto published nearly a century ago.
Donald Trump defended his “bloody” comments during a speech in Iowa on Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images
“I never read ‘Mein Kampf,’” he said. “They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that,’ in a very different way.”
Trump then claimed that immigrants “from all over the world” coming to the United States across the border bring crime and potentially disease.
“They could be healthy or very sick,” Trump told the crowd. “They could bring diseases that will spread to our country. But they do bring crime with them.”
The former president has come under fire after saying in an official speech at a packed hockey arena in New Hampshire on Saturday that the flow of migrants under President Biden’s border policies is “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Trump promised to end the immigration crisis “on my first day back in the White House.”
Trump has been accused of parroting Adolf Hitler’s ideas from “Mein Kampf.” fake images
A chorus of left-wing politicians and commentators have accused Trump of echoing Hitler’s reflections on the “purity” of Aryan blood, which laid the groundwork for the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews and other minorities during World War II. .
However, prominent Republicans have come to Trump’s defense, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shrugged off the “bloody” comments on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”
“We are talking about language. I don’t give a damn what language people use as long as we do it right,” Graham said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) noted that his wife, an immigrant, was part of the Trump administration.
“Well, I don’t think it bothered him when he made Elaine Chao Secretary of Transportation,” McConnell said of his wife.
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