Donald Trump's Past Comments About 'Mein Kampf' Resurface (December 2023)
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... Donald Trump's past comments about Mein Kampf have resurfaced after he referenced the book penned by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in a speech in Iowa last night.

Trump has earned criticism for his speech in the Hawkeye State after he said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our county" during a rally in New Hampshire over the weekend. He doubled down on the comments yesterday.

He said: "It's crazy what's going on ... They are destroying the blood of our country, that's what they are doing. They are destroying our country.

"They don't like it when I said that and I never read Mein Kampf. They say 'Oh, Hitler said that' in a much different way." ...

Maria Brenner wrote a 1990 Vanity Fair article, which included an interview with Trump's first wife Ivana Trump, and referred to Trump keeping a book by Hitler by his bed.

The article was published amid the couple's divorce following his affair with Marla Maples. Ivana died on July 14, 2022.

The article said: "Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

"Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade."

Referring to this, Trump is quoted as saying: "It was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew."

In response, Davis is quoted as saying he did give his friend a book about Hitler, but that it was actually My New Order A Collection of Speeches not Mein Kampf. ...